Gülen movement can serve as bridge between Islamic and secular nations,...
Amid ongoing efforts by the Turkish government to close down schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs linked to the faith-based Gülen movement, also known as the Hizmet movement, intellectuals and...
View ArticleCivil Rights, the Hizmet Movement, and the Liberative Power of Education
Scott C. Alexander One of the foundational principles of the teachings of M. Fethullah Gulen, and thus one of the animating principles of the Hizmet movement, is the notion that education is one of the...
View ArticleWhere corruption dovetails with tyranny
Ali Yurttagül Turkey is experiencing the moment where corruption meets and overlaps with tyranny. Personal possessions are being impounded and people are losing their jobs, all because of sympathizing...
View ArticleALDE’s Watson says illiberal state leads to unjust action against Gülen...
Sir Graham Watson, the outgoing president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party, has said, while citing the consequences of a country's deviation from liberal values, that...
View ArticleAfrican Union Commission chair supports creation of more Turkish schools
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, said on Tuesday during a visit to Johannesburg that volunteers working for the faith-based Gülen movement -- inspired by...
View ArticleAK Party continues to replace workers at seized firms with loyalists
The panel of trustees appointed to Kaynak Holding and Koza İpek Holding as part of Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government-backed operations is continuing to dismiss employees, firing 26...
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Pro-AK Party channel replaces Samanyolu at Türksat after removal of critical...
Turkish officials gave the frequencies used by Samanyolu TV channel, which was recently removed from the state-owned Turkish Satellite Communications Company (Türksat), to a pro-government channel...
View ArticleInterfaith push to explore unity and peace between Muslims and Christians
Canberra's Muslims are not doing enough to explain their faith and culture to their neighbors the director of the ACT's Islamic Bluestar Intercultural Centre has said. Fethullah Erdogan, who has been...
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Hizmet in Africa: The Activities and Significance of the Hizmet Movement
A new book, Hizmet in Africa, by Ambassador David H. Shinn has been published by Tsehai Publishers, which is one of the few publishing companies dedicated to African literature. The book first...
View ArticleEnemy at the gate
Sevgi Akarçeşme As authoritarianism looms over Turkey like dark clouds, Turkey underestimates a threat next door: the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or, as they call themselves following...
View ArticleTop court’s dershane ruling cannot be ignored, Council of State tells...
In the latest twist in the ongoing saga over the legal status of dershanes in Turkey, the country's Council of State has announced its reasoned decision concerning its ruling of a stay of a...
View ArticleIslamic scholar Fethullah Gülen offers condolences for Tahir Elçi, slain...
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has offered his condolences in the death of lawyer Tahir Elçi, who was the president of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, and the two police officers who were killed in a...
View ArticleTurkish schools dominate award ceremony in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Students from Turkish schools in the country dominated a ceremony in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in which the Ministry of Education rewards those students who are successful in national...
View ArticleCHP deputy calls trustee’s order to remove Gülen’s books from shelves...
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Akif Hamzeçebi has criticized an order given by a trustee appointed to run Kaynak Holding for copies of all books written by Turkish...
View ArticleTurkish Islamists out to kill interfaith dialogue
Abdullah Bozkurt It is nothing but a cynical farce for Turkish Islamist rulers to suddenly remember the idea of interfaith dialogue in the aftermath of the brutal Paris attacks in order to appeal to...
View Article‘Removal of Gülen’s books from NT shelves a shame for Turkey’
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, the former president of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (MAZLUM-DER), has lashed out at a decision made by new trustees of Kaynak Holding...
View ArticleTurkish group supports democracy: Objections
Y. Alp Aslandogan* We object to USA Today’s uninformed depiction of Hizmet (aka Gulen movement) (“Turkish faith movement secretly funded 200 trips for lawmakers and staff” and “U.S. lawmakers got...
View ArticleCEO of seized Koza reiterates call for fair probe
Koza İpek Holding CEO Akın İpek, whose companies were seized after a politically-motivated court decision in October, has repeated his call for local auditors to conduct a fair investigation of an...
View ArticleCorrupt media endorses authoritarianism in Balkans, Turkey
Yavuz Baydar The tone of the meeting in İstanbul was immediately set by the words of Brankica Petkovic, director of the Peace Institute in Ljubljana, who coordinates the large-scale media integrity...
View ArticleThe AKP, the Holocaust, and the Hizmet movement
İhsan Yılmaz The website theholocoaustexplained.org summarizes the tragic event known as the Holocaust as follows:“The Holocaust was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between...
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