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Turkish Education Ministry engaged in profiling of staff, daily claims
The Taraf daily published a number of new documents on Monday that showed the Ministry of Education has profiled its staff based on their ideological and religious backgrounds. The documents, which...
View Article'Media reports of FBI visit to charter school inaccurate'
The lawyer of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has announced that news reports circulating in the Turkish media over the past several days with headlines such as “FBI operation targets Gülen”...
View ArticleAK Party Deputy Hakan Şükür resigns due to friction over prep schools
Hakan Şükür, a Turkish member of parliament and former international football player, quit Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling party on Monday in protest at a government plan to shut down prep...
View ArticleGerman view of Hizmet Movement (1)
Ismail Kul I remember the late, right-minded orientalist Annemarie Schimmel’s words saying, “The most attacked and least understood religion in the West is Islam.” Today, we come across a similar...
View ArticleMischief-makers and the Hizmet movement
Gültekin Avcı Mischief-makers continue to work hard. Every objective conscience sees that the Hizmet movement now has to struggle for its rights and to defend itself against some unjust and fallacious...
View ArticleHakan Şükür’s resignation blamed on lack of intra-party democracy
Observers have associated Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Hakan Şükür’s decision to resign from the party on Monday with the ruling party’s lack of intra-party democracy, noting that...
View ArticleGerman view of Hizmet Movement (2)
Ismail Kul Let us continue from where we left off on SWP’s Gunter Seufert’s report on Hizmet Movement. I tried to outline the report in the previous column. Let me today offer a general interpretation...
View ArticleAKP: What is next?
İhsan Yılmaz We, of course, have not yet seen any hard, concrete evidence related to the most recent corruption investigation. The suspects are most probably innocent, and until they are convicted we...
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Pak-Turk delegation visit Balochistan Chief Minister
Chief Minister of the province Balochistan, Pakistan, Abdul Malik Baloch received a delegation of Pak-Turk Schools’ and several other affiliated institutions’ officials at his residential office. The...
View ArticleTurkish Islamic scholar Gülen rejects any link to graft probe
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has rejected any link to an ongoing corruption probe in which 52 people, including well-known businessmen, the sons of three ministers, and a number of advisors,...
View ArticleRotten?
Yavuz Baydar It stinks. This is the bluntest description of what the graft probe has revealed so far. This is a three-pronged operation involving more than 50 suspects, but Turkey has never seen an...
View ArticleThe dangers of demonization
Kerim Balcı Government supporters have accused the Hizmet movement of aiming to discredit a number of ministers and their relatives. The claim relates to a recent investigation into alleged bribery in...
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Giving Precedence to Common Points: The Limits of the Otherness in Fethullah...
Irina Vainovski-Mihai*Gülen’s Constructs of Otherness In a broad overview of Gülen’s and his movement’s national-security identity, Hasan Kösebalaban (Kösebalaban 2003) distinguishes three perceptions...
View ArticleProve it
Tarık Toros, Bugün There are some people who fail to look at the charges that have been leveled against the detainees in the corruption operation that has touched the sons of three ministers and...
View ArticleOperation and crossroads
Orhan Miroğlu Therefore, there are currently no defendants in the Feb. 28 coup trial being held in detention -- with the exception of retired general Çetin Doğan, who was convicted in the Balyoz trial....
View ArticleHizmet movement and perceptions
Markar Esayan The agenda-setting development of last week was a graft investigation that was launched on Dec. 17. Several people, including the sons of some ministers, businessmen and the general...
View ArticleNY Times: Growing Corruption Inquiry Hits Close to Turkish Leader
ISTANBUL — In building his political career, Turkey’s powerful and charismatic prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, relied heavily on the support of a Sufi mystic preacher whose base of operations is...
View ArticleHumanity prepares its own end, says Assyrian Catholic Church leader Sag
Signing ceremony for the book "Fruits of Dialogue" written by Chorepiscopus Yusuf Sag was held in Istanbul. Humanity has been preparing its own end, said Assyrian Catholic Church leader in Turkey...
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Prof. Weller: Hizmet accomplished bringing together oppositions in society
The scholarly interest towards the Hizmet Movement has been growingly increasing. On December 4th, the London-based Dialogue Society hosted a book launch of a yet another publication on the movement....
View Article'Power struggle with Gulen movement weakens Erdogan'
DW: Fethullah Gulen's Hizmet movement has been labeled a NGO, a political network, a religious community and an Islamic sect. How would you describe the movement founded by the Muslim cleric? Günter...
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