Hizmet Movement blog now available in Portuguese and Arabic
Committed to the mission to make the most up-to-date and accurate archive on Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet Movement conveniently available to any inquiry, Hizmet Movement blog has taken yet another...
View ArticleGulen named author of the month in Casablanca
Fethullah Gulen’s books received the most attention at the 20th Casablanca International Book Fair. The Moroccan capital city Rabat-based Elfiye Publishing, the largest publishing company in the...
View ArticleGülen's lawyer condemns Erdoğan's accusations, TÜSİAD calls for sanity in...
Prominent Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen's lawyer, Nurullah Albayrak, condemned Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's latest comments about Gülen while the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's...
View ArticleGülen offers condolences for police officer, resident
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has expressed condolences for the death of a police officer and a resident amid high tensions across Turkey. Gülen said in a statement on Friday that Turkey's...
View ArticleStability in the post-Erdoğan era
Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey will likely enter a new transitional period when beleaguered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has now become a major drag on his ruling Justice and Development Party...
View ArticleLies at home, lies in the world
Abdülhamit Bilici The Zaman daily has remained dedicated to an important mission ever since it was founded: to expose the lies of the old media, which was prejudiced against the religious.Zaman...
View ArticleHizmet's approach to politics and politicians
İhsan Yılmaz The Hizmet community is aware of the social and political aspects of the principle of “encouraging good and forbidding evil” (emr-i bil ma'ruf ve nehy-i anil munker) as being some of the...
View Article‘TUSKON is a reliable and long-time friend of ours'
The Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON) is deeply committed to improving and strengthening the bilateral trade between Russia and Turkey, Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
View ArticleErdoğan's top 15 insults world leaders usually don't make
Mahir Zeynalov Someone who is on Twitter can easily see how abusive language supporters of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) use, primarily inspired by their leader who goes on an...
View ArticleRTÜK suspends 20 SHaber TV shows, harshest penalty of all times
Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has suspended 20 TV shows of the Samanyolu Haber TV news channel, its Editor in Chief Metin Yıkar announced via his Twitter account on Saturday.“RTÜK has...
View ArticleA tentative glossary of Dec. 17 process
A brand new glossary of Turkish politics inclusive of new names and concepts has emerged in the aftermath of the Dec. 17 corruption and bribery operation. Shoebox, Hello Fatih, Hello Daddy have become...
View ArticleErdoğan bringing Turkey to brink of collapse amid corruption scandal
Turkey is suffering from an ongoing crisis and chaos in its state institutions including the judiciary and law enforcement due to a government-orchestrated plot to minimize corruption and bribery...
View ArticleStrange alignment of PKK and government against Hizmet
Close relations between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which began with a settlement process over the Kurdish issue, have deepened...
View ArticleErdoğan and AK Party deputies split over hate speech against Hizmet
Apparently, not every Justice and Development Party (AK Party) member and minister is on board with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's hateful and insulting rhetoric against the Hizmet movement and...
View ArticleLawyer Albayrak: Evidence fabricated to lay psychological ground for legal case
What is the real goal of the black propaganda that has been aimed at Fethullah Gülen since the Dec. 17, 2013 operation? Gülen's attorney, Nurullah Albayrak, who initiates legal proceedings against at...
View ArticleGYV discusses respect for sacred values at UN panel
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) held a panel on Saturday on “Respect for Sacred Values” at the United Nations' Geneva headquarters. Many academics and diplomats showed great interest in...
View ArticleIntellectual deviations
Uğur Kömeçoğlu* It is sad to observe how Etyen Mahçupyan joined the ranks of columnists who have disappointed not only liberal democrats but also many pious Muslims. When he acted poorly with regards...
View ArticleDeconstructing the chaos in Turkey
Gökhan Bacık Turkey is proceeding down an authoritarian path. It is almost like a soap opera; every day brings some bad event. In retrospect, the current chaos in Turkey may turn out to be unique in...
View ArticlePro-gov't media continues smear campaign against Hizmet movement
In order to defame the Hizmet movement, A Haber -- a member of the government-designed “pool media,” created through funds raised by various businessmen to protect the government's interests -- has...
View ArticleMillions of people have asked for interview with Gülen
Ekrem Dumanlı I should stress at the outset that it was not Fethullah Gülen who asked for an interview; we actually proposed this. By “we,” I am referring to the huge desire coming from the consciences...
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