MHP leader calls PM Erdoğan's witch hunt remark ‘unpleasant'
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for saying the government would not hesitate to conduct a witch hunt against the Hizmet...
View ArticleTurkish opposition leader: No witch hunt in democracies
Leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his threatening remarks against the Hizmet movement, which the prime minister...
View ArticleErdoğan officially declares his despotism
Bülent Keneş In a democracy, an administration owes its legitimacy not only to popular will, but also to the laws by which it is bound. In this way, it is the law that distinguishes a state from a...
View ArticleDeputy: Prime minister accuses others of the things he does
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is accusing other segments of society of undermining the state, but in fact he is the one who is distorting the state system, according to Burdur independent deputy...
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Hizmet keeps school and cultural center in São Paulo
Luisa PessoaFounded eight years ago, the Colégio Belo Futuro Internacional [Belo Futuro International School] teaches elementary to high school and has 163 students, of which only seven were born in...
View ArticleGülen extends condolences to coal mine victims
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has extended condolences for victims of the coal mine blast in western Turkish town of Soma, wishing speedy recovery for injured workers."They were working in...
View ArticleAcademics: Hizmet a movement, not a gang; Gülen builds ties
The Hizmet movement led by US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is not a gang but a movement, academics have said in reaction to a smear campaign led by the Turkish government against the movement...
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Review of Walter Wagner’s Beginnings and Endings: Fethullah Gulen’s Vision...
“What we call the beginning is often the end.And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” Thomas Stearns Eliot“The Four Quartets” Over the past several years, a high...
View ArticleHate discourse directed against Hizmet movement
Diren Çakmak* Amid fresh discussions on whether the 1915 incidents constitute a crime of genocide, I invite all to reread an article by Lawyer Orhan Erdemli recently published in Today's Zaman, “Is...
View ArticleTurkey and the problem of political continuity
Anthony Skinner Even before the disaster of Tuesday’s explosion at a mine in western Turkey, questions were being raised about the future of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is yet another...
View ArticleAssociations, NGOs, banks launch aid campaigns for Soma victims
Many business associations, private banks, NGOs and football clubs have launched aid campaigns for families of the victims of the coal mining incident in Soma, where an explosion and fire killed at...
View ArticleEvolution of the Gülen Movement
Helen Rose Ebaugh Scholars who study social movements agree that the elements of a movement must “incubate” for a while before it emerges into the public as a recognizable social movement. Because of...
View ArticleStarting a witch hunt
Orhan Oğuz Gürbüz The discourse Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Chairman and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan relies on to intimidate his opponents has taken on a whole different dimension....
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Understanding of Muslims in US is limited, says scholar
Jihad Turk, the founding president of the first Islamic graduate school in the United States, Bayan College, a division of Claremont Lincoln University, admits that there is a negative image of Islam...
View ArticleMining disaster victims commemorated by Senegalese students
Mining disaster victims, who lost their lives in Turkey’s deadliest mine explosion which took place in southwestern Turkish city of Manisa’s Soma district, commemorated in Senegal. Flags have been...
View ArticleSmear campaign websites cleared while targeted journalists accused
In a development that is likely to go down in history as an example of a judicial scandal, an investigation has been launched into some well-known journalists who had taken legal action against certain...
View ArticleLailat al-Miraj marked with prayers for Soma victims across Turkey
Along with the rest of the Islamic world, Turkey marked the Muslim festival of Lailat al-Miraj, known as Miraç Kandili in Turkish, which is the sacred day of the Prophet Muhammad's ascent to Heaven, on...
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Graduation ceremony held in Turkish schools in Senegal
Turkish schools opened by entrepreneurs affiliated with Hizmet Movement held a graduation ceremony for the students on their 11th academic year in Dakar. Large numbers of people including many...
View ArticleA day of joy for five hundred Albanian orphans
In commemoration of Orphans Day in Albania, Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) Foundation brought smiles to the faces of a total of five hundred orphans and their families, who arrived in the capital Tiran from 36...
View ArticleMHP accuses PM of conducting psychological warfare to cover graft claims
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of carrying out “merciless, wild and treacherous” psychological warfare against the nation in order to cover up...
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