You Cannot Understand the Servants!
Ahmet Kurucan This is going to be the second time; with your permission, I would like to make another exception in this column that covers topics only on Islamic law and Islamic methodology for several...
View ArticleWho put those 4.5 million dollars there?
Murat Yetkin Let’s assume that the graft probe, which started on Dec. 17, 2013, was not an actual corruption case but a “coup attempt” against the Tayyip Erdoğan government in Turkey. Let’s assume that...
View ArticleTurkey's Fading Democracy
Alp Aslandoğan* Not long ago, Turkey was considered a model of constitutional democracy in the Middle East. For this reason, President Obama chose Turkey as his first majority-Muslim destination. But...
View ArticleReuters: Turkish editor hits out at media coercion under Erdoğan
A top Turkish mainstream newspaper editor has openly decried widespread government pressure on the media, in an unusually blunt outburst against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan's leadership months ahead...
View ArticleTurks in America condemn unlawful government action during the corruption probe
The Turkic American Alliance (TAA), the largest national Turkic organization in the US, issued a joint statement on Tuesday with six other federations to condemn illegal acts committed by the Turkish...
View ArticleAfrican firms signal increased trade at TUSKON meeting
Businesses from East Africa are expecting to boost trade and investment partnerships with Turkey, company representatives told at a summit held by the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and...
View ArticleThe ruling party's strategic mistake
Cafer Solgun ... After the 2011 general elections, the ruling party started to act as if that much was enough for democracy. It abandoned the initiatives it had launched. It never successfully...
View ArticleFormer Pakistani PM expresses gratitude for Turkish schools
Yousuf Raza Gilani, a former prime minister of Pakistan, has praised Turkish schools that have been operating for 18 years in his country, saying that they serve as bridges between his nation and...
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Dialog High School wins top prize
Schools established abroad by Turkish entrepreneurs keep riding high in their host countries. Though attacked unjustifiably since the December 17th probe at home, the schools have a track record of...
View ArticleEP discusses transparency call for Hizmet
A European Parliament (EP) committee discussed on Wednesday a proposal, calling on the Hizmet movement to increase transparency, a call backed by the movement. The proposal has been tabled as a...
View ArticleArt exhibition tells story of deficiency
Kimse Yok Mu, a charity that works in 103 countries to eradicate poverty, opened an art exhibition titled “Deficient” on Tuesday in İstanbul's Kuruçeşme neighborhood. Housed inside the building of APCO...
View ArticleGYV organized peace conference at United Nations
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) -- whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen -- and the Peace Island Institute (PII) held a joint conference entitled “Peace and...
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"Peace and Sustainable Development: A Two-Way Relationship" Panel
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) co-organized a panel on the relationship between peace and sustainable development with the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the UN and Peace Islands...
View ArticleTurkey, ‘The Devil's Advocate' and ‘Titanic'
Özcan Keleş* Dear Reader, I have sinned! I have binged on Turkish politics these past two months. Let he who knows Turkey and/or Turkish but has not done the same cast the first disapproving thought in...
View ArticleNow, speaking Turco-Tweetish is more challenging
Arzu Kaya Uranlı“The cell phones you have now have more computing power than the Apollo space capsule, and that capsule couldn’t even Tweet. So just imagine the opportunities you have in that sense,”...
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Nigerian deputy ambassador demands more Turkish schools in his country
Foluso Oluwole Adeshida, Nigeria’s deputy ambassador to Ankara, attended a gathering by Sakarya Association of Entrepreneurs and Industrialist Businessmen (SAGIAD). In his remarks, Adeshida hailed the...
View ArticleGov't targets Hizmet to distract attention from corruption, says director
A leading, internationally acclaimed member of the new generation of film directors in Turkey, Zeki Demirkubuz, who was highly critical of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government during...
View ArticlePolice pressure businessmen who sued Erdoğan over Hizmet remarks
According to a report by the Zaman daily, one of the businessmen who sued Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in January because of insults he made about the Hizmet movement, has been under pressure...
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Kimse Yok Mu chair: Everyone feels some type of oppression in Turkey
This week's guest for Monday Talk is not a political figure; on the contrary, he is extremely involved in non-political and charity work. However, the conditions that Turkey is in have drawn him into...
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Kimse Yok Mu soup kitchen to serve weekly hot meal in Somalia
The international aid and relief foundation Kimse Yok Mu, which has been active in Somalia with its permanent aid efforts for quite some time, has launched its weekly hot meal service in the capital...
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