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‘Gülen resides in a social facility, not a mansion’
While speculation and news reports among some national media outlets have claimed that prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen lives in a luxurious mansion in Pennsylvania, close friends and...
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in the Gulen Movement
Michael J. Fontenot, Ph.D.* and Karen A. Fontenot, Ph.D. ** The basic orientation of the Gülen Movement contains an apparent contradiction. On one hand, it sharply and broadly criticizes scientifically...
View ArticleYavuz: Der Spiegel's inflammatory, biased journalism on Turkey story shocked me
A Turkish-American professor has slammed German Der Spiegel’s what he called “inflammatory and biased” reporting in its article about the movement associated with Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah...
View ArticleUnscrupulous news reporting by Der Spiegel
Abdullah Bozkurt Der Spiegel's recent article titled, “Dangerous Friends: Power Struggle Splits Turkish Ruling Party,” by Hasnain Kazim and Maximilian Popp, is perhaps the best example of the way in...
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Gülen donates Manhae award honorarium to Peace Projects
Well-respected Turkish intellectual and scholar Fethullah Gülen has decided to donate the honorarium that accompanies the Manhae Peace Prize he received to Peace Projects, a grant program launched by...
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Interview with Kimse Yok Mu Foundation’s President Ismail Cingoz
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation (KYM) President Ismail Cingoz spoke on Turkey’s helping hand extending to the world: “We involve approximately 10 thousand volunteers in our efforts. We have 97 thousand...
View ArticleRational Religion: Gülen’s Middle Way
Howard Wettstein* This paper explores “the middle way.” Talk of a middle way harkens back to Aristotle’s Golden Mean, and in my own Jewish tradition to Maimonides. I explore the synthesis, if that is...
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Newlyweds donate $40K wedding jewelries to Tanzania
An Usak (an Aegean province in Turkey) businessman living in Tanzania, Ubeyd Yesil, and his new bride donated their 40 thousand dollar worth wedding jewelries to the university dorm and water wells to...
View ArticleIs the Gülen Movement a Threat to the Turkish Government?
Hakan Yeşilova* The Turkish press has been dominantly occupied with the coup and violence in Egypt and Syria, and one more issue that has erupted, as if out of no where, is a so-called rift between the...
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Medical professionals sponsoring water wells in Africa
A group of medical professionals led by the local Environment and Culture Foundation in Kahramanmaras (a province in Turkey) has contributed to water well campaign by Kimse Yok Mu Foundation. Having...
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South Korean religious leaders in İstanbul for interfaith dialogue
A group of South Korean religious leaders visited the Intercultural Dialogue Platform (KADİP) in İstanbul on Saturday to discuss interfaith matters and share ideas about Fethullah Gülen, a...
View ArticleIs Hizmet making a feint at Turkish Government?
Akif BekiJournalists and Writers Foundation gave a bulk response to the rumors regarding Hizmet-Government dispute. I did not sense an attempt of making a feint at the government in the text, if we...
View ArticleDeputy PM says image of gov't-Hizmet fight ugly
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç on Monday said the image of a fight between his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and Hizmet movement is very ugly, adding that the government has...
View ArticleGerman media responsive to the claims but not the refutations
Mahmut Çebi Originating in Turkey, the Hizmet movement has grown in popularity as it has become more visible with its activities. Naturally enough, so have the criticisms and claims in parallel with...
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Water well for 10 thousand Pakistani with the money from cattle milk
A philanthropist woman from Kocaeli (a province in northwest Turkey), Siyade Yilmaz, has financed a water well, in memory of her father, at the service of 10 thousand in Daraban town of Tehsil Kulachi...
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Embracing the World: Fethullah Gülen’s Thought and Its Relationship to...
Ori Z. Soltes* There is a range of distinct connections that may be found between Rumi in his time and Gülen in his time—our time. Fundamentally, the former one spoke and taught and wrote and while the...
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Thai Minister asks Turkish investors to invest more in education in Thailand
Winners at various International Science Olympiads from Turkish schools in Thailand paid a visit to Science and Technology Minister Peerapan Palusuk. The minister asked Turkish entrepreneurs to invest...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu heals the wounds of flood victims in Sudan
Having arrived in Sudan’s capital city, Hartum, where the recent flood wrecked thousands of residences, Kimse Yok Mu Foundation (KYM) olunteers delivered a total of 300 tents along with food and...
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Fethullah Gulen: "Neither Now, Nor in the Future Should Our Friends Have Any...
This is a part of an interview with Fethullah Gulen by Mehmet Gundem of Milliyet Daily in January 2005.Have you written a will? I had written a will a long time ago. In this I requested to be buried...
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Mosque, cemevi to be built in same complex
Cem Foundation President İzzettin Doğan In an effort to strengthen the bonds between the Alevi and Sunni communities in Turkey, a mosque and a cemevi -- an Alevi house of worship -- will be built in...
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