Media heads agree to unite against growing pressure
As the pressures against freedom of the press heighten in the aftermath of the attack on the Hürriyet daily headquarters on Sunday night, press outlets from different ideological backgrounds agreed to...
View ArticleIslamic scholar Gülen offers condolences for those killed in Dağlıca attack
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has offered his deep condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in a terrorist attack in Dağlıca in Hakkari province on Sunday, while expressing his...
View ArticleKaynak Holding: We will claim damages from Justice Ministry
Kaynak Holding will file a claim for damages against the Ministry of Justice for the prosecutors who issued a search warrant that led to auditors and police officers raiding the holding on Tuesday,...
View ArticleWhy the Doğan and Koza-İpek groups are targeted
Yavuz Baydar"If we wanted, we could crush you like a bug. You have been able to live until today only because we have shown mercy to you." These are not lines from a mafia movie. They were printed by a...
View ArticleGlocalization of the Gülen Education Model: An Analysis of the Gülen-Inspired...
Dr. Ali Ünsal This paper examines the “glocalization” process of the implementation of the Turkish-based Gülen Educational Model within Indonesian society. We seek to answer the question of how the...
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African Union Commission chair receives Fethullah Gülen peace award
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, was awarded the Fethullah Gülen Peace and dialogue Award during the eighth annual Ubuntu Lecture and Dialogue Awards ceremony,...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen’s message to Turquiose Harmony Institute “Peace and Dialogue...
M. Fethullah Gülen Board of Directors, Advisory Board Members and staff of Turquoise Harmony Institute and honorable participants of Ubuntu Lecture and Peace and Dialog Awards, ladies and gentlemen.All...
View ArticleThe Gulen Movement: An Islamic Response to Terror as a Global Challenge
Ibrahim A. El-Hussari Inspired by the Turkish Nursi Movement, M. Fethullah Gulen was among the few Muslim leaders, across the world, whose response to the challenges posed by global instability had...
View ArticleA Symphony of Compassion
Anthony J. Ciorra God calls us to make music in our world; to perform in a global symphony of compassion. If each human being lived by the law of compassion, what a wonderful world this would be! I...
View Article'Mr. Gulen's legacy is not going to be in material form, but rather a...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 35 (Full text) My name is Senad Agic**. I was born in Bosnia. I was raised in Bosnia and took my education in Sarajevo. I graduated from the Gazi Husrev Beg Madrasa. I worked for...
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Romanian Senate president inaugurates Turkish school in Romania
Calin Popescu Tariceanu, the president of the Romanian Senate, was the guest of honor at the inauguration ceremony of a Turkish school in Romania on Tuesday.n inauguration ceremony for a Turkish school...
View ArticleBogus allegations against İpek Media Group revealed to be false
The justifications given for this month’s politically motivated raid against the İpek Media Group and its parent company Koza İpek Holding have all been proven to be false; fabricated crimes based on...
View ArticleYou make your own bed, lie in it
Ali Halit Aslan An outside observer would see Turkey as a sick person whose health is deteriorating because its democracy has been taken hostage, its economy is in decline and its social order is...
View ArticleAttacking the Journalists and Writers Foundation (reloaded)
İhsan Yılmaz In May 2015, I published a column with this same title: Attacking the Journalists and Writers Foundation. This was before the June 7 election and what I have described about the country's...
View ArticleTurkey’s Witch-Hunt Against the Gülen Movement Should Stop
Eldar Mamadov* We’re told they are “vampires” and “traitors”, “pawns of foreign powers” and “cancerous cells” and a “blood-sucking virus” to be “annihilated,” “cleansed,” “vaporized,” and “separated...
View ArticleBad money drives out good money
Bülent Keneş You shouldn't think that I am referring to the observation Sir Thomas Gresham had famously made in connection with the shortage of money in the markets during the reign of Queen Elizabeth...
View ArticleReaction grows over bogus political raids on İpek Media Group
Reaction has grown over this month’s bogus politically motivated raids on the İpek Media Group and its parent company Koza İpek Holding, the charges all proven to be fabricated, based on lies and...
View ArticleThreatening media and future of Turkey
Cafer Solgun In democratic countries, the media performs its roles freely. There are diverse media outlets with different ideological orientations as well. The diversity of media and the free...
View ArticleTÜSİAD board member Boydak detained in latest wave of gov’t crackdown
Turkish police detained seven executives and university officials, among them a board member of the country's top business group, on Wednesday in Kayseri, in a controversial operation that critics...
View ArticleEU Minister Konca: It’s not possible to explain arrest of journalist Karaca...
Turkey's new Minister for European Union Affairs Ali Haydar Konca has said a range of undemocratic bills that have rolled back the rule of law, and the extended pretrial detention of journalist and...
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