Malian Minister Praises Turkish Schools For Persevering Through War
Malian Culture Minister Bruno Maiga has praised Turkish schools, saying only they amongst foreign schools did not leave Mali when a civil war broke out in the country, which has been fighting against...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu extends helping hand to Indonesia
An event was organized over the weekend by the Fatih Turk High School and Turkish Charity Foundation Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) for the children who have been orphaned due to the tsunami disaster...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu lends helping hand to 3,000 orphans in 4 countries
Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) Vice President Celal Türkoğlu has stated that his organization has been providing aid to 3,000 orphans in Palestine, Indonesia, Sudan and Somalia for two...
View ArticleA Prayer to the Volunteers of Kimse Yok Mu from the Islands of Comoros
The Muslim population, having donated the plot of land on which the Turkish school in the island of Comoros will be built, dressed in their most festive garments and gathered in the forested land to...
View ArticleErgenekon suspect convicted for insulting Fethullah Gülen
Muammer Karabulut, who stands accused in the investigation into Ergenekon -- a clandestine terrorist group that sought to undermine democratically elected government -- has been convicted and sentenced...
View ArticleRwanda: First Lady Receives Turkish School Bosses
The First Lady, Jeannette Kagame, on Monday received the proprietor of Hope Kids Academy, an international Turkish school that opened its doors in Kigali in February. The school, located in Kigali's...
View ArticleGYV urges government to accelerate reforms in favor of media freedoms
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, has called on the Turkish government to speed up pro-freedom reforms and to bring its...
View ArticleWhy is the GYV statement on press freedom significant?
Bülent Keneş As Turkey slows down its democratization and liberalization reforms, and occasionally backpedals on certain reforms, it runs into more serious problems. In particular, the slowdown in the...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen sends his condolences to victims of Boston bombings
Following the bombings in Boston that left three people dead and 176 injured Fethullah Gülen, a well-known Turkish Islamic scholar now residing in the US, has sent his condolences to the families and...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has made it onto Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. This is the 10th year the magazine has listed its 100 most influential...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen among TIME Magazine's "World's 100 Most Influential People"...
Alliance for Shared Values Mr. Fethullah Gulen has been named as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2013. TIME recognized Gulen for "preaching a message of tolerance...
View ArticleHouston firms ‘explore' Turkey on direct flights
A business delegation of Houston-based companies is currently visiting İstanbul in a program organized by the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON) to discuss expanding trade...
View ArticleFinally, an awakening
Yavuz Baydar“...notes with concern that most media are owned by and concentrated in large conglomerates with a wide range of business interests ; reiterates its call for the adoption of a new media law...
View ArticleGülen Institute awards student essay winners in Washington
The University of Houston's Gülen Institute on Wednesday, April 10, bestowed awards on 30 young people for their winning essays on the subject of immigration and evacuation, in Washington, D.C. Nearly...
View ArticlePeace Valley Foundation recognizes reporter, teacher, preacher for community...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – At about the same time tonight, April 18, 2013, that a keeper of the peace at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally wounded by gunshots; in the same week that some...
View ArticleIndonesian Sultan at Meliksah University in Kayseri
The Indonesian Sultan Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono was granted an honorary doctorate by Meliksah University in Kayseri. In attendance of the ceremony were the chairman of Boydak Group Board Haci Boydak,...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen and Gulen Movement discussed in New York
A special conversation on Fethullah Gulen and the Gulen Movement by Peace Islands Institute was held at NY Turkish Cultural Center on April 9.Prof. Ergil (R) authored a book on Gulen The professor of...
View ArticleTurkish cultural center celebrates opening in Mount Prospect
An untimely power outage couldn't dim the mood of hundreds of people who gathered Saturday to celebrate the new Turkish American Society of Chicago Cultural Center in Mount Prospect. "There's some...
View ArticleScholars: The major problem of the Muslim World is shortage of educated people
The conference titled “Ideal Human and Ideal Society in the Thoughts of Prophet Muhammad” organized jointly by the International University of Sarajevo (IUS) and the journal Hira came to an end after...
View ArticleLamb-hunt in the Netherlands
Abdülhamit Bilici“Once, a wolf drinking water from the river notices a lamb by the water and runs towards him. He is planning to eat up the lamb. But to block any likely help and to shift the blame...
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