Gulen movement is of high interest to Moroccans
Abdülhamit Bilici…The counterbalancing, both modern and traditional attitudes of scholars like Ahmed Abbadi, president of League of Moroccan Ulama, who calls attentions to the facts that Morocco has...
View ArticleDavutoğlu says Turkish schools abroad play an important representative role
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkish schools abroad are playing an important representative role and that Turkish government officials will do everything to support them....
View ArticleHow does Erdoğan hurt the liberal pious of Turkey?
Sevgi Akarçeşme Turkey has been vigorously debating the nature of its democracy and popular Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling style, which has increasingly authoritarian tendencies, as never...
View ArticleThe US, Israel, Iran, Kurds, AKP and Hizmet
İhsan Yılmaz Last week, I was in the United Kingdom for the launch of our newly co-edited book “The Muslim World and Politics in Transition.” Then, I went to Kazakhstan to present a paper at the...
View ArticleGülen rejects labeling of Hizmet as ‘gang,' calls it ‘traitorous'
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has rejected the labeling of the Hizmet movement as a “gang,” saying those who uttered this word committed “traitorous” behavior. The term gang, “örgüt” in...
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Turkish Syriac Catholic patriarch launches ‘Fruits of Dialogue’
“Diyaloğun Meyveleri” (Fruits of Dialogue), a book by Deputy Patriarch of the Turkish Syriac Catholic Church Yusuf Sağ, was launched at a reception held at Taksim Green Park Hotel in İstanbul on...
View Article27th 'Covering Turkey' meeting discusses voter trends
Turkey's domestic political arena is feeling tense under the heat from the nearing elections. In the wake of the opposition's boycotting of Parliament after the 2011 parliamentary elections and the...
View ArticleToronto Nile Academy students’ worthwhile donation for the Philippines
The students of Nile Academy in Toronto, Canada, delivered the monetary donation from their pocket money to the Philippine Consul General in Toronto. Accompanied by Anatolian Heritage Federation’s...
View ArticleMore Divisions, More Democracy
Mustafa Akyol* Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. But these days an...
View ArticleIs the Hizmet movement resisting normalization?
Selim Savaş Genç*“Seizing control within the state” is one of the gravest unwritten crimes that can be committed in this country because when those who believe that they acquired state power before you...
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Erdogan v Gulen*
Fethullah Gulen THE biggest achievement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, during a decade of rule, has been to get the army out of politics. He did it with the help of the country’s...
View ArticlePost-Kemalist Turkey and the Gülen Movement
Taha Özhan Turkey is a country that is in the process of completing its normalization. In its most basic sense, this is a necessary process that both the society and the state have to go through. The...
View ArticleTurkey's Erdogan Battles the Gulen Movement, His One-Time Ally*
Piotr Zalewski Both were religious men. In the early 1970s, Cemal Usak and Recep Tayyip Erdogan were classmates at the Istanbul Imam Hatip Lisesi, an Islamic high school. By the end of the decade,...
View ArticleEnd of the Erdoğan-Gülen Partnership?*
Samir Salha Turkey’s left-wing Taraf newspaper has not finished leaking secret documents capable of inciting crises, bringing down political coalitions, and launching new areas of friction between...
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Turkish cultural day in the Philippines
A Turkish cultural promotion event took place in the capital Manila, the Philippines. The event featured traditional Turkish dance performances, food, music, and a photography exhibition along with...
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Strategic defamation of Fethullah Gülen: English vs. Turkish
İhsan Yılmaz In my last piece, I elaborated on how a Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy took part in a psychological war campaign in Turkey to present the Hizmet movement to the Turkish people...
View ArticleAlevi problems deeper than they seem, opinion leaders agree
On the first day of the 30th Abant Platform meeting on Friday on the Alevis issue in Turkey, Alevi and Sunni intellectuals and opinion leaders agreed that the problems date back to centuries ago and...
View Article‘Pulitzer Prize equals five years in prison in Turkey'
Emre Uslu The statement in the headline belongs to Bülent Arınç, deputy prime minister and spokesperson for the Turkish government. Moreover, he is responsible for the government's media policy. For...
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Mandela supported mosque construction in Johannesburg, says businessman
The Nizamiye Mosque - the largest mosque in Southern Hemisphere (Photo: Madelene Cronjé) Turkish businessman Ali Katırcıoğlu, who sponsored the construction of an Ottoman-style mosque complex, called...
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Moved by Syrian refugees’ woes, U.S. mayors initiate blanket drive
Ali H. Aslan The conditions the Syrian refugees in Adana refugee camp are in deeply moved the U.S. mayors on an intercultural trip to Turkey. They have collected over 10 thousand blankets through the...
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