Traitor in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt An unusually vitriolic campaign waged by Turkey's authoritarian leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, against opponents and critics using baseless accusations and full-blown...
View ArticleFormer AK Party deputy Şükür reveals gov't job offer
Hakan Şükür, a Turkish member of Parliament and former international football player expressed that before his resignation from the AK party, a high-level ministry position was offered to...
View ArticleThe story of the boy who cried wolf
Mümtazer Türköne The Sabah newspaper greeted the news of the 10-hour National Security Council (MGK) meeting with the headline “Parallel structure added to red book.” But this was, of course, a...
View ArticleJournalist reveals MGK decision to fight against all religious groups
In a statement that came as a confession, a reporter from the pro-government Sabah daily said a decision was made at the National Security Council (MGK) meeting on Thursday to wage an effective war...
View ArticleKılıçdaroğlu: Consensus should set content of ‘Red Book,' not AK Party
Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) attempt to label the faith-based Hizmet movement a terrorist organization at last...
View ArticleNigerian education minister says Nigeria indebted to Turkish schools
Nigerian Education Minister Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has said his country will always be indebted to the Turkish schools operating in the country. Praising the Turkish schools operating in seven...
View ArticleIslam's internal enemies
Abdülhamit Bilici Caliph Omar, who is renowned for his attention to justice, paid a visit to sacred sites after taking over control of Jerusalem from Governor Sophronius. He visited Masjid al Aqsa and...
View ArticleRed Book
Ekrem Dumanlı Those who came to power by promoting an Islamist ideology have been performing pretty poorly. Those who expected support from the people due to the unfair decisions of the National...
View ArticleState discrimination against Hizmet movement sympathizers
Oğuzhan Tekin Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government is aiming to take all steps to finish off Hizmet movement sympathizers by any means. Discrimination is one...
View Article'I see the Hizmet movement as the best expression of Islam'
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 13 (Full text) I am Steve Gilliland**. I am American. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes known as the Mormons. I have a wonderful wife...
View ArticleChild victims to be affected by smear campaign against KYM
The smear campaign conducted by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government against Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) -- a charity run by the Hizmet movement inspired by prominent Turkish...
View ArticleAKP’s war against ’internal enemies’
Orhan Kemal Cengiz When this government was gaining strength, the military guardianship and the role of the MGK were weakened. And I was very happy for a while that we had put aside this “internal...
View ArticleTurkish teacher dies of cancer, buried in Australia
Sezer Morkoç (43), a chemistry teacher at a Turkish school in Australia, died of cancer on Monday and was buried in Adelaide. Morkoç graduated from the chemistry department of Middle East Technical...
View ArticleGYV says claims Hizmet formed political party one big lie
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, released a statement on its website on Wednesday strongly rejecting claims that the...
View Article'Claims Hizmet formed political party one big lie'
Journalists and Writers Foundation It is impossible for a civil society movement that is supported by millions of volunteers from various political views to form or make someone form a political party....
View Article"Turkey, with the great assistance of Fethullah Gülen has been a model"
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 14 (Full text) My name is, Patrick Drinan**, and I'm a Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus from the University of San Diego. I taught International Relations at the University...
View ArticleBan on Bank Asya share trading scrutinized
A decision by the Turkish index Borsa İstanbul (BİST) to prevent the stock of the country's largest Islamic lender from being traded on the market between Aug. 14 and Sept. 15 will be re-evaluated, the...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu opens school for Syrian children
Turkey's UN-affiliated aid organization Kimse Yok Mu inaugurated a school in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on Friday that will provide education to the children of Syrian refugees. In accordance...
View ArticleLawyer denies claims Gülen linked to new party
The lawyer of the Turkish Islamic scholar whose teachings are the inspiration behind the Hizmet movement, Fethullah Gülen, has denied reports in the media that Gülen or the Hizmet movement have founded...
View ArticleTurkey’s largest charity group targeted
Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey's political Islamists, armed with abusive government powers, are deliberately and maliciously trying to strangle the country's leading private charity group, Kimse Yok Mu, in...
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