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Nigerien Minister of Education at Kimse Yok Mu
Niger Minister of Education, MME Ali Marianna Elh. Ibrahim accompanied by a Nigerien delegation paid a visit to Kimse Yok Mu headquarters on April 19, Friday. Interacting with the foundation officials...
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An Experience of Co-Existence: Panel on the Example of Istanbul and Şanlıurfa
The Journalists and Writers FoundationIntercultural Dialogue Platform organized a panel entitled “An Experience of Co-Existence: The Example of Istanbul and Şanlıurfa”, which took place in the city of...
View ArticleTurkish and Kurdish women meet to discuss media and peace in Sulaimaniya
Kurdish and Turkish women met in the Iraqi town of Sulaimaniya on Sunday to discuss various issues including the role of the media in relation to women and coexistence and freedoms in the Middle East....
View ArticleIslamic scholars to discuss ‘ijma' at İstanbul symposium
Scholars from 80 countries will convene in İstanbul over the weekend for a two-day symposium during which they will exchange views about ijma, an Islamic term meaning religious consensus, and stress...
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Nine decades later, Turkey gives back to Karachi
KARACHI: When Aynur Pazarci watched Benazir Bhutto on television, she would think of her as an elder sister. After spending her whole life in Turkey, Pazarci felt connected to Pakistan long before she...
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Lebanese-Swedish singer Zain says proud to sing Fethullah Gülen's poem
Lebanese-Swedish singer Maher Zain, who recently sang a poem written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen for an album titled “Colors of Peace-Rise Up,” has said that he is very proud of singing...
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'Gulen Movement is a civil society movement, rather than a religious one'
University of Utah professor of political science Hakan Yavuz, Ph.D, gave a lecture followed by a conversation on his latest book “Toward an Islamic Enlightenment: The Gulen Movement”. At the lecture...
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'Even deeper than 9/11'
Ali H. Aslan In my humble opinion, following the tragic events in Boston, there are two questions before us that we must contemplate deeply on. First, despite all the efforts of the Obama...
View ArticleSelflessness and the Dilemma of Human Nature
A basic assumption of many contemporary social science theories is that humans are “opportunistic” by definition and driven primarily by self-interest. This implies that a rational human being would...
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Dusseldorf drawn to the call “Come, whoever you are”
Hagia Sophia Museum, Sumela Monastery, Karagoz-Hacivat (traditional Turkish shadow entertainment) Turkish song and folk dance performances, marbling and calligraphy art demonstrations... All these and...
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Minister thankful to Fethullah Gulen for backing the peace process
Minister of EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis, thankful to Fethullah Gulen for backing the ongoing peace process in Turkey’s Kurdish issue, said, “The peace process is a process in which the...
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Ghannouchi: Islam a religion of dialogue; Fethullah Gülen promotes ‘noble Islam'
The head of Tunisia's largest opposition movement, Rachid Ghannouchi, has warned that Islam is endangered by radicalism, which he described as a project of bringing about incitement and civil war. The...
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More on The Internal Workings of The Gulen Movement
Hakan Yavuz, Ph.D. In general terms, the Gülen movement reflects a new understanding of Islam and modernity from within an Islam that is informed by Anatolian modern history and secular progress: This...
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Beacons of hope
Jochen Thies *Driven by a sense that German state schools are failing them, many migrant communities are founding their own A gray morning in January in the sleepy suburbs of Stuttgart. But in one part...
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“As I researched the schools, what I experienced was beyond what I expected”
New book focuses on Turkish Schools in Germany Dr. Jochen Thies introduced the book he wrote about the schools opened in Germany by Turkish entrepreneurs: “We Are a Part of This Society-A Look at the...
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Culture day celebrated in Turkish Schools
The Turkish School celebrated Culture Day on 25 April in the capital, Sana’a. The event had many cultures represented, including the Pakistani, Indian, Turkish and Yemeni cultures. The Minister of...
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Islamic scholars from across the world gather in İstanbul to discuss ‘ijma'
A two-day symposium during which Islamic scholars from 80 countries will exchange views about ijma, an Islamic term meaning religious consensus, kicked off in İstanbul on Saturday. The event, which is...
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Diagonal Dialogue from Turkey to Senegal
Teranga is another name for Senegal. It means hospitable in the Wolof language. It is a door that opens from the West to Africa and from Africa to the West. Here, the vast sand sea of Great Sahara...
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Scholars stress need for dialogue, cooperation to solve global issues
A two-day symposium during which Islamic scholars from 80 countries exchanged views about ijma, an Islamic term meaning religious consensus, took place in İstanbul over the weekend with participants...
View ArticlePM's adviser says Karayılan's words on Oslo leaks, Uludere ‘baseless'
The prime minister's chief adviser, Yalçın Akdoğan, said in remarks to Today's Zaman on Sunday that terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander Murat Karayılan was "lacking grounds" in making...
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