Consultation from Gülen’s perspective: The relationship between the ruler and...
Doğu ErgilQ: The concept of consultation prevents the individual’s melting within the society and contributes to the formulation of collective decisions. What kind of a role does Fethullah Gülen...
View Article“ISIS — A terrorist group making false representation of Islam,” says Turkish...
Danish Ahmad Khan Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Muslim scholar, thinker, author, poet, opinion leader and educational activist. who is actively promoting interfaith and intercultural dialogue for over a...
View ArticleHizmet-affiliated schools removed from private school incentive list
The Ministry of Education engaged in scandalous discrimination on Thursday by crossing off Hizmet-affiliated schools at the eleventh hour from the list of private education institutions that students...
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Highlights of major corruption, bribery operations of Dec. 17, 25
The investigations made public on Dec. 17 and 25 of last year revealed the biggest corruption and bribery scandal in the history of the republic, in which some members of the Justice and Development...
View ArticleBank to sue watchdog over ‘smear campaign' as reactions mount
Turkish Islamic lender Bank Asya has decided to sue authorities over inaction in light of what it has called "massive smear campaign" against the financial institution for nine months. The private...
View ArticleHalki, pope, patriarch and Gülen
Abdullah Bozkurt The way Turkey's chief political Islamist and new president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has approached the reopening of the Halki seminary, a school that had trained Eastern Orthodox clergy...
View ArticleGalimbek's message
Abdülhamit Bilici Because we have been unable to become a regular and normal democracy, every generation and every social segment has once been defined as a domestic enemy in different periods. One of...
View ArticleLawyer: Demand for Gülen's extradition legal matter, not political
Amid Turkish media reports that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will seek the extradition of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen from US President Barack Obama during a meeting at the NATO Summit, Gülen's...
View ArticleBank Asya account holders threatened against making deposits
Holders of accounts with the Islamic lender Bank Asya have been subjected to threats about making deposits, while being urged to withdraw money from their accounts, according to a report on Thursday in...
View ArticleTop court rejects claims it is controlled by 'parallel structure'
Turkey's Constitutional Court has rejected claims that it is controlled by the "parallel structure," a phrase the government uses to describe followers of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen,...
View ArticleTUSKON's Meral says AK Party replaced Kemalist parties of the past
Rıza Nur Meral, who heads one of Turkey's most influential business confederations, the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON), has said the Turkish state, after suffering for...
View ArticleWill the CHP be able to fill the void?
Mümtazer Türköne The Republican People's Party (CHP) congress, which convened on Friday in Ankara, is one of the indicators that things are not going well in the party. The CHP is not a homogenous...
View ArticleUS law professor: Erdoğan's talk of Gülen extradition ‘foolishness'
Jim Harrington, a US human rights attorney and University of Texas professor, has said that any talk of asking the United States to extradite Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to Turkey is...
View Article13 questions to the president
Veysel Ayhan 1. Mr. President, you attended the closing ceremony of the International Turkish Olympiad in June last year. "I congratulate our dear teachers who dedicate their lives to the promotion of...
View ArticleGov't excludes a further 114 schools from incentive package
The Turkish government has removed an additional 114 private schools from the list of schools that are eligible for government incentives, saying that they were mistakenly included in the original...
View ArticleYou should give those documents to the court rather than the US
Adem Yavuz Arslan In a previous column of mine, I wrote about how Turkey's Dec. 17 corruption scandal had been discussed in the US media in a piece titled "What if Dec. 17 happened in the US." Those...
View ArticleAl-Qadi troubles in Turkey-US ties
Abdullah Bozkurt Senior officials at the US Department of Treasury including Secretary Jack Lew and Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen must be in the crosshairs of...
View ArticleIs Islam more violent than any other faith?
Aydoğan Vatandaş After the brutal atrocities of the "Islamic State" (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham), Don Lemon, CNN's well-known...
View ArticleThe conscience of the government
Nedim Hazar Deputy prime minister and government spokesman Bülent Arınç's recent statement was an example of how politicians can twist the facts to suit their interests. In the wake of [the...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu refutes pro-gov't dailies' allegations
Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There?) issued a written statement on Monday refuting allegations raised by pro-government dailies Sabah and Takvim on the same day. In reference to the Sabah...
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