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Vocational training center for Albanian women
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation in cooperation with the local Compassion Foundation has recently launched a vocational training center for the Albanian women. The center is named after the miniature artist...
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Palauan President: We would like to participate in Turkish Language Olympics
A delegation including President of Turkish Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (TCCP), Irfan Karabulut, and International Foundation Schools General Manager, Malik Gencer, had been to the island...
View ArticleErdogan Moves to Shut Prep Schools in Blow to Gulen Followers
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government submitted a bill to parliament to shut down about 4,000 prep schools, about a quarter of them linked to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen....
View ArticleDeputy slams AK Party with creating crisis as he resigns from party
Another deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), İlhan İşbilen, slammed his party for creating crisis in the country instead of solving the current corruption scandal that...
View ArticleReuters: Turkish paper says journalist expelled for criticizing Erdogan
A Turkish newspaper said on Friday one of its journalists had been ordered to leave the country for criticizing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter, raising concerns about media freedom a day...
View ArticleGülen movement's silent majority
Orhan Miroğlu I am definitely someone who is curious about how the Gülen (Hizmet) movement's educational institutions, which are all over the globe, are going to be affected by the developments in the...
View ArticleGülen's lawyer files criminal complaint against several Twitter accounts
Prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen's lawyer Nurullah Albayrak filed a criminal complaint against Twitter users Gizli Arşiv, Wake Up Attack and Yeşil Operasyon for “setting up an...
View ArticleLawyers, academics say ‘parallel state' was invented to block graft probe
Lawyers and academics, in a manifesto released on Thursday, say the concept of a “parallel state” was invented by the government to cover up the major corruption scandal which erupted on Dec. 17,...
View ArticleThe last refuge of losers: deporting a journalist
İhsan Yılmaz I am sure most of our readers know my Today's Zaman colleague Mahir Zeynalov better than they know me. He is a very accomplished Twitter user. His Turkish twitter account has 57,000...
View ArticleMedia freedom in Turkey takes another blow
Tülin Daloğlu The feud between the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s camp and the US-based Sunni religious leader Fethullah Gulen supporters, which hit the surface about two months ago by...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu reaches out to Syrians in joint project with UNHCR
The Turkish aid organization Kimse Yok Mu is conducting a joint project with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide monetary assistance to Syrian refugees in...
View Article'Everybody reads about Prophet Muhammad'
A nationwide campaign entitled “Everybody reads about him,” which was recently launched by Peygamber Yolu (The Prophet's Path Association) in order to help the Turkish public acquire a broader...
View ArticleThe preacher shaking up Turkey — from America*
Fethullah Gulen, a frail 75-year-old Islamic preacher with a gift for oratory, leads an ascetic life in a 10-hectare compound tucked into rolling farmland and woods here, far from the political crisis...
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NY Times: Turkey Deports Journalist for Criticizing Government on Twitter
Turkey deported an Azerbaijani journalist on Friday for “posting tweets against high-level state officials,” according to an Interior Ministry order obtained by his newspaper, the English-language...
View ArticleToward an Islamic enlightenment
Şahin Alpay Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has put forward an interpretation of Islam that advocates peace, democracy, secularism (in the sense of freedom of religion and conscience for...
View ArticleThe Hizmet movement and participatory democracy
Gökhan Bacık The differences between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Hizmet movement have become critically important since the graft probe of Dec. 17. The government...
View ArticleToward a party state
Ekrem Dumanlı A few years ago, we journalists asked Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan some questions at a TV interview aired on a news channel. Eventually, the conversation settled on the issue of...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen’s Prominence in Indonesia
Dr. Ali Unsal* Indonesia is a brotherly country, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, with a potential to find a place for itself among the most developed countries in the world. For the past...
View ArticleWhy didn't Chuck Hagel visit Turkey?
Lale Kemal Neither the US nor the European Union are of the general opinion that there is a “parallel state” headed by the Hizmet movement, whose leader, an Islamic scholar named Fethullah Gülen, lives...
View ArticleGülen's defense against Erdoğan's onslaught
Abdullah Bozkurt In April 2011, I asked the main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu about what he thought of the slanderous remarks uttered by his deputy İsa Gök. Gök had targeted Islamic scholar...
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