Today's non-Muslims are members of the Gülen movement
Orhan Kemal Cengiz I have just recently read in a column published in the Bugün daily by Doğu Ergil, a fellow columnist with Today's Zaman. Ergil referred to a survey that I was not aware of. The...
View ArticleTurkey parliament gives spy agency controversial new powers
Turkey’s parliament has approved legislation to bolster the powers of the country’s intelligence service, a measure government opponents say will deepen a trend towards greater authoritarianism. After...
View ArticleTurkey Blessed with the Prayers of Tanzanian Orphans
Fighting against poverty in 110 countries, from Africa to Asia, from the Balkans to the Middle East, the volunteers of the Kimse Yok Mu Foundation now visited orphanages in Tanzania. A committee from...
View ArticleVolunteer website serves as reference tool about Hizmet movement
Sevgi Akarçeşme A website established and run by a group of Turkish volunteers based on the West Coast of the United States which aims to provide the most accurate and up-to-date source of information...
View ArticleMunicipality illegally demolishes building in İstanbul
Workers from the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality have demolished a small, prefabricated shelter on land that belongs to the Hizmet-affiliated Mehtap Education Foundation, despite the lack of...
View ArticleErdoğan hampers girls' education
Abdullah Bozkurt Adalet Binici, a 14-year-old Kurdish girl in eighth grade, became the champion in last year's Level Determination Examination (SBS), a high school placement test administered by the...
View ArticleIs the AK Party turning into the old CHP?
Abdülhamit Bilici One of the usual tactics of old politicians is to blame external enemies for anything that goes wrong in the country. It was not really hard to convince people that this was the case...
View ArticleErdoğan's game plan for Hizmet
İhsan Yılmaz Last week, I was in Australia to participate in the launch of our recently published book “The Muslim World and Politics in Transition: Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement,” that...
View ArticleIslamic scholar Gülen offers condolences to ferry victims
Prominent Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who also inspired the faith-based Hizmet movement, issued a message of condolence to the families of victims who were killed when a ferry sank off in South...
View ArticleStudents from West Africa gather at Turkish school in Senegal
Students from west African countries gathered in Senegal's capital city of Dakar to join Math Olympiads which were organized by Turkish "Yavuz Selim Educational Institutions". Turkish Schools...
View ArticleThe CHP's new era
Orhan Oğuz Gürbüz The winner of the local polls of March 30, 2014 is clearly the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) from a quantitative perspective. How did the opposition parties perform...
View ArticleWorld applauds Turkish schools abroad while gov't seeks to close them
Turkish schools that are established by educational volunteers-affiliated with the faith-based Hizmet movement, inspired by teachings of Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen, across the world receive great...
View ArticleReactions growing to demolition of family home
People from various rights groups and foundations have leveled harsh criticism at the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality after municipality workers demolished a prefabricated shelter in land belonging...
View ArticleAK Party to increase social media army
Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is planning to increase its social media army from 9,000 to 12,000 users before the presidential election, according to a Monday report in the Taraf...
View ArticleMothers, fathers crying and praying due to extensive victimization
Ekrem Dumanlı Lies and slander are not all that remain after devastating and cruel events take place. I sometimes even believe that it is better to ignore this impotent and twisted type of journalism...
View ArticleHate crimes get worse in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt Despite the fact that Turkey has recently adopted legislation against hate crimes, Turkey's divisive Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not stopped his attacks with verbal...
View ArticleYamanlar Sweeps Gold Medals in the U.S.
Yamanlar Private School was the proud recipient of 12 gold, 10 silver, and 15 bronze medals in the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad (AMC-10), organized by the American Mathematical Society and...
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Turkish deputy PM backs rector accused of links to ‘parallel state'
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has expressed his support for Dicle University Rector Ayşegül Jale Saraç, who became the subject of a Higher Education Board (YÖK) administrative investigation after...
View ArticleGovernment media runs riot in smear campaign against Hizmet
A news article in Daily Sabah, the new, English-language member of the government's media lineup, claimed on Monday that the police are ratcheting up measures to patch holes in their security network...
View ArticleHizmet in Context: Societal Islam versus Political Islam
Sabine Dreher* The movement discussed here is according to Ebaugh (2010) a civic movement rooted in Islam that is independent from the state. Others see it simply as a faith-based movement (Esposito...
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