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Fethullah Gulen: "ISIS Cruelty Deserves Our Strongest Condemnation"
Islamic scholar Fethullah GülenAs a practicing Muslim, deeply influenced by the tenets of my faith, I strongly condemn the brutal atrocities of the ISIS terrorist group. Their actions are a disgrace to...
View ArticleErdoğan steps up attacks on Bank Asya, raising risks of banking crisis
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has led a relentless defamation campaign against Bank Asya, Turkey's largest Islamic lender and one of the strongest in terms of capital adequacy, ratcheted up his...
View ArticleCaesar not above economy
İbrahim Türkmen"Caesar non supra grammaticos" is a well-known Latin phrase that asserts that even unquestionable and mighty rulers have limits, not only against the timeless and indiscriminate rules of...
View ArticleCode ‘111' profiling on Parliament's agenda
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu has brought to Parliament's agenda a code allegedly used by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy to classify...
View ArticleRomanian Minister: Turkish schools are raising the next generation of Romanians”
The Clui branch of the Turkish schools in Romania, operating in the country for the past 20 years now, kicked off the academic year in its new campus. The Romanian minister of social dialog Aurelia...
View ArticleOpposition turns up heat on Erdoğan after verbal attacks on Bank Asya
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu continued to criticize President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his unwarranted attacks attempting to discredit Bank Asya,...
View ArticleBank Asya shares recover despite Erdoğan's defamatory remark
After falling more than 50 percent since the beginning of this week, Bank Asya shares in the Borsa İstanbul (BİST) rallied on Thursday, rising over 10 percent in the first trading session, but the...
View ArticleAfrican Professor lauds 'Kimse Yok Mu' as model relief organization
University of South Africa Professor Yousuf Dadoo has congratulated Kimse Yok Mu, one of the largest charity organizations in Turkey, for making its work a model for all charitable groups. He said that...
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Gülen’s Notion of Hizmet and Public Good: From a Strategy to an Action Plan
Maimul Ahsan KhanHizmet [literally, “service”] for Fethullah Gülen implies that a person devotes his or her life to Islam, serving for the benefit of others, which is beneficial for life after death....
View ArticleIs Erdoğan's power being exhausted?
Mümtazer Türköne The government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are clearly engaging in a polemic. A fairly premature power struggle is going on between the presidential palace and the government;...
View ArticleErdoğan deceived Turkey by portraying himself as advocate of democracy
Veteran columnist Cüneyt Ülsever, who was fired from the Hürriyet daily in 2011 following then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's pressure on the newspaper's administration due to Ülsever's critical...
View Article'Hizmet goes to the heart of what it means to be a Muslim.'
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 9 (Full text) My name is Brad Hawkins**. I’m a professor of religions here at Cal State Long Beach. Currently, my specialty is the study of South and Southeast Asian religions,...
View ArticleErdoğan's Bank Asya slander brought to parliamentary agenda
An attempt by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last week to discredit Bank Asya, Turkey's largest Islamic lender, has been brought to the parliamentary agenda in a parliamentary question. In last week's...
View ArticleParents apply to Council of State against incentive discrimination
Many parents have filed legal complaints with the Council of State against a recent government decision to exclude certain schools from the list of private education institutions that students who are...
View ArticleLeaving a unique mark on economic history
Ali Aslan Kılıç While explaining the "trust" factor in economies, professors at economics faculties underline the importance of social psychology. They list examples of how people panic and trigger...
View ArticleCivil servants victims of profiling, now face investigations
Many civil servants of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy who were recently found to have been blacklisted by the government are now facing investigations over baseless allegations, bureaucrats...
View ArticleJoking Erdoğan and his ministers
Selçuk Gültaşlı Weakened ties to reality are leading to a heightened sense of absurdity in Ankara's dealings with Brussels. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and many of his government ministers...
View ArticleThe judiciary, last bastion of democracy, at risk
Abdullah Bozkurt The election for Turkey's key judicial council, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), on Oct. 12 will determine whether the last bastion of democracy will remain an...
View Article'Turkish schools are excellent good will ambassadors for Turkey'
Internationally acclaimed sociologist Professor Vincent N. Parrillo from William Paterson University in New Jersey, the author of a dozen books and numerous journal articles, some translated into nine...
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Somali students caring for the Soma orphans
The Somali students who were previously brought to Soma, Manisa, for study by Kimse Yok Mu Foundation (KYM) in 2011, recently donated stationery supplies for 105 orphans the mining disaster left...
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