Erdoğan's image in the West
İhsan Yılmaz For the last few months, I have been traveling in several countries, including Australia, Switzerland, Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, the US, etc. Wherever I go, I meet with academics,...
View ArticleDoes Erdogan really want Gulen in Turkey?
Semih İdiz Turbulence in ties between Ankara and Washington is increasing because of developments in Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants the United States to extradite or, failing that,...
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Extradition request for Gülen aims at manipulating public perception
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) -- whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen -- has stated that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been trying to create the...
View ArticleAKP creating a new regime
Emre Uslu The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been reshuffling and reassigning many public officers. This has become a routine practice after the Dec. 17 bribery and corruption...
View ArticleTurkish charity Kimse Yok Mu delivers aid to Afghani flood victims
Turkish Charity organization Kimse Yok Mu and Turkish Schools in Afghanistan delivered next party of aid consisting of food and other basic requirements for the Afghani families who lost their homes in...
View ArticleAnkara's soft-power dilemma
Kerim Balcı An overarching principle of Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's foreign policy paradigm has been prioritizing soft power and rhythmic diplomacy over hard power. During the first two...
View ArticleRumi Forum chooses solutions to problems for essay contest
The Rumi Forum, an international organization established by Turks living in Washington, D.C., to foster intercultural dialogue, has chosen the Hizmet movement and solutions to today's problems as the...
View ArticleGYV: Hard-won democratic gains sacrificed for short-term interests
Journalists and Writers Foundation The regression in democratic values, human rights and freedoms in the country in recent years has become worrying for many and has triggered harsh criticisms both...
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GYV: Hard-won democratic gains sacrificed for short-term interests (2)
Concerned over Turkey's faltering democracy amid simmering fears over the country's lurch toward authoritarianism, the Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) said democratic gains, achieved after...
View Article‘My son in law is a Gülenist but my daughter is a Muslim’
Murat Yetkin I had never heard any sentence like the one in the title before. I interrupted the person speaking and asked, “What do you mean? Do you mean that you don’t consider your son-in-law to be a...
View ArticleSwoboda calls on gov't to show solid evidence of ‘parallel state'
The Turkish government's campaign against what it calls the “parallel state” through mass purges and demotions in the police and judiciary, and its accusations that the Hizmet movement has infiltrated...
View ArticleMysterious visitors to holdings
Turhan Bozkurt Reports of certain visitors paying “unexpected” visits to various Turkish holdings and company headquarters are currently being spread in economy circles. As these guests are connected...
View ArticleRenewed attempt to target firm close to Hizmet exposed
A prosecutor's office in İstanbul is preparing to launch a new investigation into Kaynak Holding, a Turkish company close to the Hizmet movement, in an alleged attempt to reignite earlier claims of...
View ArticleGovernment's excessive and disproportionate use of power
Lale Kemal Turkey has become less transparent and there is less freedom of speech -- even none, you might say -- compared with, for instance, just three years ago. Ironically, this occurred under the...
View ArticleRecep Tayyip Erdoğan: Turkey’s President-in-Waiting?
Marc Pierini* As I write, the probability of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan running for president of the Republic of Turkey in an election on August 10 seems to get higher by the day. For a long...
View ArticleDeviation, crisis and opportunities…
Begüm Burak The recent crisis going on between the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and the Hizmet movement is indeed not just a struggle between the two actors. It means much more...
View ArticleTurkey is gateway to Europe: exporters urged to collaborate with Turkish...
Ultimate objective of Pak-Turk Businessmen Association (PTBA) is to give a quantum jump to the trade between the two brotherly countries and in this connection members of the association are regularly...
View ArticleScience, Culture and Art activity held at Fatih College
Near the end of 2013-2014 academic year, Fatih College held a large scale activity with the participation of 25,000 students from 106 colleges. The event which was attended by thousands of students and...
View ArticleAfghan Turk schools gained great success at university exam
Students from Afghan Turk schools scored a victory at university entrance examination in the country and 30 students were able to be ranked on top 100 at the exam, a success which was observed in the...
View ArticleIslamic scholars convene at ijtihad symposium in İstanbul
Around 100 Islamic scholars from many parts of the world gathered at İstanbul Congress Center at ijtihad conference organized by Yeni Ümit and Hira Magazines. The two-day long symposium will focus on...
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