Erdoğan betrayed will of 58 percent, professor says
Professor Mustafa Erdoğan, an expert on constitutional law and political science, has said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government have betrayed...
View ArticleThe Most Recent Reviver in the ‘Ulama Tradition: The Intellectual ‘Alim,...
Ali Bulaç* In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Islamic world underwent a deep crisis and two approaches emerged to offer potential solutions. One of these places emphasis on...
View ArticleMan killed in Yalova over sympathy for Hizmet movement
A 35-year-old man has been killed in Yalova province by a drug addict on the grounds that the victim was a follower of the faith-based Hizmet movement, against which the government of Prime Minister...
View ArticleGovernment's Bank Asya operation brought to parliamentary agenda
Reactions are snowballing against the government's operation to force the closure of the participation bank Bank Asya as part of its fight against the Hizmet movement, with the matter brought to...
View ArticleBolu municipality builds road inside Fatih College's garden
The Bolu Municipality, having previously closed down two schools belonging to businesspeople affiliated with the faith-based Hizmet movement in early July, has now constructed a road inside the garden...
View ArticleErdoğan's presidency to stir more controversy
Abdullah Bozkurt The election of divisive politician Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as president of Turkey in Sunday's election with a slim margin above the required majority is a harbinger of a...
View ArticlePresident Erdoğan and the new Turkey
Robert Ellis* After an unpleasant electoral campaign, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has succeeded in becoming Turkey's 12th president with almost 52 percent of the votes in the first round held...
View Article'Hizmet will continue its mission regardless of attacks'
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who, along with the faith-based Hizmet movement, has been subjected to numerous attacks from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said the movement will...
View Article'I'm ready to serve many years in prison if what I did was illegal'
Yakub Saygılı, a former police chief who was purged following the Dec. 17 and 25 corruption probes, says he is confident that his team had not engaged in illegal operations as alleged by the...
View ArticleBank Asya shares results amid gov't pressure
Turkish Islamic lender Bank Asya posted a net profit of TL 51.4 million in the January-June period of this year, which was 48.8 percent lower year-on-year. The decline comes on the heels of increased...
View ArticlePolice report accuses Gülen based on fabricated ‘gov't media' stories
According to a story reported by the news portal Rota Haber, the National Police Department drafted a secret report in June 2014 mostly based on stories in pro-government media which claim that the...
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KADİP holds International Panel for Sharing Coexistence Experience in Korea
The International Panel for Sharing Coexistence Experience brought together the representatives of the religions in South Korea and the religious groups in Turkey in Seoul, the capital of South Korea....
View ArticleZiraat, other likely suitors for Bank Asya
State-run Ziraat Bankası and other lenders are interested in acquiring Bank Asya, the bank's CEO Ahmet Beyaz said on Wednesday, without giving further details. Beyaz's statement follows a dispute last...
View ArticleAnother Hizmet-affiliated school targeted by AK Party in Antalya
The Antalya Metropolitan Municipality City Council decided on Tuesday to change the structural plan of a Hizmet-affiliated school that has been operating in the Muratpaşa district of Antalya since...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu water well for Cameroon
Board members of Kimse Yok Mu Foundation’s Sanliurfa chapter (an Eastern Turkish province) recently established a water well for Cameroon. The water well has been now serving some 700 locals. The board...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu donation booth for Gaza
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation’s Kahramanmaras chapter (an southeastern Turkish province) has taken yet another action to extend a hand to Palestine. Its volunteers have set an donation booth for Gaza people...
View ArticlePrep schools to continue their educational programs
Representatives of the Union of Private Preparatory Schools (ÖZDEBİR), Güven Preparatory Schools Owners Association (GÜVENDER), the All Private Schools Association (TÖDER) and the Private Education...
View ArticleTrading of Bank Asya shares blocked indefinitely
İstanbul's stock exchange has indefinitely extended the suspension of trade for Islamic lender Bank Asya, according to reports on Thursday. Trading of the bank's shares was initially suspended on Aug....
View ArticleErdoğan returns to hate speech, drops pledge to ‘embrace all'
Only four days after he promised to embrace all 77 million citizens of the nation in his victory speech, president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has quickly returned to his hateful rhetoric, again bashing...
View ArticleKeeping silent about the 'parallel' thesis
Herkül Millas I carefully read and listen to the arguments made by those who are against the "parallel state," trying to understand what they are advocating. This is because among the proponents of...
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