US human rights report slams Turkey over freedoms, justice system and security
The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released annually by the U.S. State Department, has provided a snapshot of the deteriorating human rights environment in Turkey, stressing that the ruling...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament adopts Turkey report deploring serious backsliding on...
The European Parliament has adopted an annual progress report on Turkey which strongly criticized the deteriorating situation of democracy and fundamental rights in the country. The report was voted on...
View Article'Erdoğan is killing journalism,' says Today's Zaman editor forced out after...
Since the Turkish daily Zaman and its English-language sister publication Today's Zaman were taken over by court-appointed trustees last month, over accusations of terrorist propaganda, the papers'...
View ArticleComplainant says he was ‘fooled,’ apologizes to suspects in trial targeting...
Thirteen suspects who were detained as part of an operation targeting followers of the Gülen movement in the central province of Sivas were released after the complainant in the case apologized to them...
View ArticleState Department Report Slams Turkey on Human Rights and Press Freedom
Aydogan Vatandas The United States accused Turkey of restricting civil rights and violating basic human rights in a long annual human rights report released on Wednesday. The report starts noting that...
View ArticleTolerance and Hospitality as a virtue in Gulen’s Teachings
Tolerance is defined as allowing someone or something to exist without interference. In social and political settings, it means to let other opinions and practices that are different than ours to exist...
View ArticlePhilanthropist targeted in witch-hunt operation in Erzurum passes away
A 91-year-old man, Alaattin Öksüz, who came to public attention in February when police officers attempted to detain him as part of an operation targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, has died.Öksüz...
View Article"The Hizmet Movement represents a very positive view of Islam"
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 42 (Full text) My name is William Martin. I am Emeritus Professor Sociology at Rice University, and currently, the Senior Fellow for Religion and Public policy at the James A....
View ArticlePro-gov’t daily ordered to pay compensation over ‘fabricated’ story on...
Staunchly pro-government Akşam daily has been ordered to pay compensation to an opposition deputy for printing “fabricated” Twitter conversations of him with a journalist which it claimed indicated a...
View ArticleEverything you've ever wanted to know about Fethullah Gulen, Turkey's most...
Murat Bilgincan As 2015 came to a close, the Grand Ballroom of the Conrad Hotel in Manhattan presented a diverse tableau: Around the meticulously set tables sat Muslim women wearing colorful...
View ArticleRumi Forum Hosts Religious Extremism Debate
As President Barack Obama pledges to step up the fight against the Islamic State group, people in Charlottesville hope to help however they can. On Thursday the Rumi Forum gathered to take a look at...
View ArticleAslandogan: ‘Journalism in coma, Erdogan controls everything’
Turkish people can’t access objective news, as journalism is oppressed and controlled by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan, who is President of the Alliance for Shared Values and a...
View ArticleTurkish government unlawfully cancels passports of critics, columnist says
The Turkish government, which has stepped up its crackdown on critics, especially members of the Gülen movement, has unlawfully cancelled the passports of a number of people who are told that their...
View ArticlePersecution of the Gülen Movement in Turkey
The Gülen (a.k.a Hizmet) movement, a faith-based community, has been subject to political persecution for more than two years by the Turkish government since they stood up against corruption and...
View ArticleTurkey's coups
Nuray Mert The Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned convictions in the Ergenekon coup plot trial as the alleged Ergenekon Terror Organization could not be found and identified. The Ergenekon probe...
View ArticleDr. Hassencahl on Fethullah Gulen and Hizmet (aka the Gulen Movement) | Fikir...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 43 (Full text) I’m Fran Hassencahl** and I’m in the Department of Communication and Theater Arts. I’m a professor there and I teach courses in intercultural communication. I just...
View ArticleBook Review: A Hizmet Approach to Rooting out Violent Extremism
Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi* The violent extremist ideology cannot be rooted out until an effective, coherent, comprehensive and well-reasoned counter-narrative is evolved. For that, all the theological,...
View ArticleAK Party set to shut down eight more critical TV channels, CHP deputy claims
A deputy from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Barış Yarkadaş, has claimed that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government will take action soon for the termination of...
View ArticleGalatasaray errs on side of political caution ending kit sponsorship with...
Mark Baber The board of one of Turkey’s biggest clubs – Galatasaray FC – have terminated their kit sponsorship deal with Dumankaya Construction for seemingly pro-Erdogan government reasons. The...
View ArticleJohannesburg hosts 14 countries for international festival
On 20 April, the City of Johannesburg hosted 50 talented school-going delegates in Melrose Arch at a dinner event ahead of the International Festival of Language and Culture (IFLC). The initiative...
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