Breaking fast with Turkish friends
Steve Nwosu Having grown up around Muslims, I’ve always looked forward to the Ramadan season and the fasting that goes with it. Of course, I have never joined in the fasting. In fact, I hardly fast –...
View ArticleCourt Tosses Turkey's Human Rights Suit Against Fethullah Gulen
Jonathan Tung A human rights violation lawsuit brought against the reclusive Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen has been dismissed by U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani in Pennsylvania, following the...
View Article'The Hizmet Movement represents what Islam really is about, what Islam is at...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 48 (Full text) My name is Fred McCall. I’m the pastor of a small Presbyterian church here in Norfolk and have been for four years now. I’ve been a Presbyterian pastor since 1978...
View ArticleHas the Gülen Movement ever been convicted of a crime?
Dogu Ergil“No” is Fethullah Gülen’s short and categorical answer. Why then are he and the movement he inspired so much of a concern? They are worried because the civil society’s growth in strength and...
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Turkish schools’ manager in Thailand receives award for ‘contributing public...
Ufuk Civelek, general-manager of the umbrella Marmara Educational Institutions in Thailand, has received the prestigious “manager of the year” award for contributing public peace through the Turkish...
View ArticleDaily facing censorship over report on ISIS: Rule of law ends in Turkey
Yeni Hayat, one of the few remaining independent dailies in Turkey, has released a public statement to react against an ongoing block on its website, which was due to its lead story on June 30. The...
View ArticleIstighna and ithar: Two forgotten principles of da’wah from the perspective...
Salih YücelIntroduction The world is in need of Islam and Islam is in need of representation (tamthil/temsil in Turkish). People’s ears are full but their eyes are hungry for role models[1] in all...
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[BOOK REVIEW] Renewing Islam by Service
Erkan Toguslu The subject matter of this book in focus is of a theological nature: the divine source of the Hizmet Movement. One of the main questions answered is how religion and religious ideals...
View ArticleThe Basis of Dialogue and Tolerance in Gülen's World
Enes Ergene1. The Synthesis of Islam and the Turkish Approach The most important values that prevailed in the twentieth century were modernization, plurality, and individualism. Because modernity...
View ArticleHave Muslim societies succeed in coping with the challenges of globalization?...
Dogu Ergil According to Gülen, the answer to this question is very clear. The Muslim countries were caught unprepared with globalization and could not respond to it effectively. One dimension of this...
View ArticleTurkey Coup: Who Is Fethullah Gulen and Is He To Blame?
As Turkey’s police forces helped the government to restore control and detain soldiers attempting to carry out a coup on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleDialogue Platform’s Statement on Developments in Turkey
Dialogue Platform which is connected with Gulen’s mouvement Hizmet, in a Statement denied any involvment in Turkey’s coup.The Statement says:“Our Honorary President Fethullah Gulen has consistently...
View ArticleGulen-linked body condemns attempted Turkey coup
On Friday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and others in his government blamed Fethullah Gulen for an attempted coup. But the Alliance for Shared Values, a nonprofit movement inspired by Mr...
View ArticleTurkey Coup Attempt: Who is Fethullah Gülen, The Cleric Being Accused Of...
In an address to his supporters at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport early on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Fethullah Gülen— a cleric living in a self-imposed exile in the United...
View ArticleWho is Fethullah Gulen, the man blamed for coup attempt in Turkey?
Was a plan to overthrow Turkey's government really hatched behind a gated compound in a small, leafy Pennsylvania town, or is that merely a smoke screen? In the throes of a military coup attempt,...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen: Turkey coup may have been 'staged' by Erdoğan regime
Fethullah Gülen, the reclusive cleric blamed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the failed coup in Turkey, believes the uprising by members of the country’s military could have been “staged” by the...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen issued the following statement on recent developments in Turkey
Fethullah GülenI condemn, in the strongest terms, the attempted military coup in Turkey. Government should be won through a process of free and fair elections, not force. I pray to God for Turkey, for...
View Article[VIDEO] Fethullah Gülen: No return from democracy (Remarks in 1994 & 2016)
For more than 40 years, Fethullah Gulen and Hizmet participants have advocated for, and demonstrated their commitment to, peace and democracy. Mr. Gulen has reiterated his clear stance on democracy, in...
View Article[VIDEO] Mr. Gülen calls for an international investigation of coup attempt in...
Fethullah Gülen"On the occasion of the latest incident (coup attempt in Turkey), I can say that, if there is such a claim that there were people [among the perpetrators] whom I knew, whom I motivated...
View Article[VIDEO] Fethullah Gülen comments on rumors about the coup attempt in Turkey
Q: What is your opinion about the possibility that they (the Turkish gov't) staged this coup attempt themselves; are there any findings that suggest this? A: In my opinion, how the incident took place...
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