Helping out in Tacloban: NGOs bring hope to typhoon-hit city
Tacloban’s City Hall wears its best dress at night. When the moon rises among the palm trees and stars shine in the tropical sky, tents light up in the garden outside the main – wretched – building....
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Turkish community in Miami extends a hand to Haiti
Volunteers of Istanbul Cultural Center in Miami, Florida, recently made donations of staple food and meat for a large number of needy Haitians. Accompanied by Miami Representative Daphne Campbell, the...
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USAF’s Activities at Home and Abroad
Omeriye Hospital built on 17,000 ft² in Kenya by International Anatolian Healthcare Federation (USAF) with the contributions of Konya’s SAMADER and Kimse Yok Mu foundations is anticipated to be...
View ArticleDangerous and unnecessary tension
Markar Esayan Turkey has been experiencing heated tension over the prep school issue for a while. And unfortunately, the discussion was taken out of the educational context and has become a political...
View ArticleKemalo-Islamists versus civil society and Hizmet
İhsan Yılmaz When summarizing the recent Cabinet meeting to correspondents, the speaker of the Cabinet, Bülent Arınç, referred to a religious concept, "fitnah" (sedition). He was implying that the...
View ArticleFirst Annual Kyrgyz American Convention a Huge Success
On Wednesday, November 20, the First Annual Kyrgyz American Convention continued with signature functions at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. The event was organized by the Turkic American...
View Article"CHP’s visit to Gülen organization a ‘unifying action’"
The main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) recent visit to the Turkic American Alliance (TAA), one of Fethullah Gülen’s U.S.-based organizations, was an “inclusive, unifying action,” CHP...
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Germany’s dialogue awards find their recipients
Alliance of German Dialogue Institutions (BDDI) recently bestowed the nation’s very first intercultural and interfaith dialogue awards. At the award ceremony, Meinhard Tenne received Life’s Work Award;...
View ArticlePrep school (dershane) resistance, autocracy and democracy
İhsan Bal In his speech in Muğla Prime Minister Erdogan carefully and delicately stressed that Turkey’s Grand National Assembly was the authority in which all decisions were made. In order to...
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Government files complaint against daily for exposing plot against Gülen
The Prime Ministry, the National Security Council (MGK) and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) have filed a criminal complaint against the Turkish daily which has revealed that Turkey's...
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What is wrong with independent journalism?
Tuğba Aydın Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç called on prosecutors to take legal action on Monday against the Taraf daily and journalist Mehmet Baransu, who revealed a controversial National Security...
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Çelik admits profiling as daily faces criminal complaint for revelations
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputy Chairman Hüseyin Çelik on Wednesday confirmed the authenticity of a new document suggesting that the government profiled individuals linked to some...
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GYV expresses concern over claims of government profiling of its citizens
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, released a statement on its website on Thursday in which it said it is worried about...
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Niagara Foundation Nebraska bestows Peace and Dialogue Awards
Niagara Foundation’s Nebraska chapter honored the recipients of “Niagara Foundation 2013 Peace and Dialogue Awards” at an award giving ceremony at Cornhusker Marriott Hotel, on November 15th. The...
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“It’s a religious duty to establish love and tolerance in society”
The 4th Annual Abrahamic Dinner co-organized by Niagara Foundation and Rochester College in Detroit, Michigan, received a large attendance. At the event, the three Abrahamic religions’ representatives,...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen is a Chance for Humanity: His Inclusive Perspective for...
The basic values that mark the twenty-first century are modernism, pluralism, individualism, and religion. Some claim that modernity embraces individual and social life as a whole, and that it has...
View ArticleSilencing Taraf
Emre Uslu The liberal Taraf daily, where I write a column, is one of the few independent newspapers in this country. Those who don't know the Turkish media well need to know that media outlets are...
View ArticleInvestigation into journalist over MGK, MİT revelations blow to free press
A prompt investigation launched against journalist Mehmet Baransu for reporting on a confidential National Security Council (MGK) document that mentioned a planned crackdown on faith-based groups in...
View Article‘If you are against us, you are the other’
Cihan Çelik When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche The controversy-turned-whistle-blowing over the blacklisting and profiling of test prep courses led by...
View ArticleResponse to aspersion
Hüseyin Gülerce The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) made an important statement on Thursday. Its press release, issued in connection with the recent tension that threatens to disrupt social...
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