Today's Zaman
Board members from the International Necaşi Turkish College, established in Addis Ababa seven years ago, recently paid an office visit to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Asres.
Head of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Zenawi said he closely followed the activities of Turkish schools in Ethiopia, expressing gratitude to those who supported the educational institutions, which contribute to world peace. He also said that he had heard only positive things about Turkish schools in the international arena.
April 15, 2011
Fethullah Gulen in Wikileaks documents
Nuh Gönültaş
Fethullah Gulen is one of us. He lives among us. Like many Turks he was born in a remote village in this country (Turkey). He has come a long way to arrive where he is today.
He now is in the center of a civic movement like no other in the world. Those who do not know him and his personality wonder if he does all this by himself. They, then, knowingly or unknowingly mythicize him.
Looking at what the Gulen movement has accomplished, they say to themselves “no, it is impossible to do all this without the support of a strong government.”
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| Fethullah Gulen |
He now is in the center of a civic movement like no other in the world. Those who do not know him and his personality wonder if he does all this by himself. They, then, knowingly or unknowingly mythicize him.
Looking at what the Gulen movement has accomplished, they say to themselves “no, it is impossible to do all this without the support of a strong government.”
April 14, 2011
Vicious cycle of quotations and freedom of expression
Kerim Balcı
The conspiracies forged about Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement sometimes wrongly named after him [as the Gulen Movement] are not simple lies stemming from hatred or fear. These are deliberate fabrications aimed at harming the movement and forcing it to suspend its activities worldwide.
The liars use a skillful method of “cycle of quotations,” where one particular liar writes a book in one particular country, then she or he is quoted in another country’s press selectively and the same lie finds its way back to the original country as if it were an established fact. The fabricated stories cross the borders without any truth-control and they are perceived as nothing but the truth by the prosecutors of those countries.
The conspiracies forged about Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement sometimes wrongly named after him [as the Gulen Movement] are not simple lies stemming from hatred or fear. These are deliberate fabrications aimed at harming the movement and forcing it to suspend its activities worldwide.
The liars use a skillful method of “cycle of quotations,” where one particular liar writes a book in one particular country, then she or he is quoted in another country’s press selectively and the same lie finds its way back to the original country as if it were an established fact. The fabricated stories cross the borders without any truth-control and they are perceived as nothing but the truth by the prosecutors of those countries.
April 13, 2011
Doğan: Fethullah Gülen stood against anti-cemevi campaigns
Fatih Vural
In thankful remarks to well-respected Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, Cem Foundation President İzzettin Doğan has said that Gülen supported the construction of cemevis (Alevi houses of worship) when signature campaigns were launched against the cemevis in some regions of Turkey.
Doğan was speaking during a panel discussion on Saturday at İstanbul’s Aydın University. Stating that nearly 2,000 cemevis have been built in Turkey in the past 50 years, he said that signature campaigns were launched to prevent their construction in the early 2000s. Noting that there were places where more than 50,000 signatures were collected, he said an interview with Gülen featured in an American daily played a positive role in slowing down these campaigns. In the interview, Gülen said cemevis should be built next to mosques and that failing to build cemevis for Alevis was unjust. Doğan said he witnessed that “such negative moves decreased following the interview.”
In thankful remarks to well-respected Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, Cem Foundation President İzzettin Doğan has said that Gülen supported the construction of cemevis (Alevi houses of worship) when signature campaigns were launched against the cemevis in some regions of Turkey.
Doğan was speaking during a panel discussion on Saturday at İstanbul’s Aydın University. Stating that nearly 2,000 cemevis have been built in Turkey in the past 50 years, he said that signature campaigns were launched to prevent their construction in the early 2000s. Noting that there were places where more than 50,000 signatures were collected, he said an interview with Gülen featured in an American daily played a positive role in slowing down these campaigns. In the interview, Gülen said cemevis should be built next to mosques and that failing to build cemevis for Alevis was unjust. Doğan said he witnessed that “such negative moves decreased following the interview.”
April 12, 2011
Gülen movement becomes new target of scaremongers
Murat Tokay
With no hope left to draw any benefit from a discourse on the “approaching reactionaryist threat,” some media outlets, military and judicial circles as well as politicians today seem to be intent on placing the Gülen movement on the target board as if the movement poses a threat for secular people and their lifestyles in the country.
Until a short while ago, some circles in Turkey were constantly trying to create fears and concerns in society, claiming that Turkey will be a country that is ruled by Shariah and that there is an imminent threat of reactionaryism. To prove their allegations, some media outlets constantly print photos of veiled women and men in Islamic attire.
With no hope left to draw any benefit from a discourse on the “approaching reactionaryist threat,” some media outlets, military and judicial circles as well as politicians today seem to be intent on placing the Gülen movement on the target board as if the movement poses a threat for secular people and their lifestyles in the country.
Until a short while ago, some circles in Turkey were constantly trying to create fears and concerns in society, claiming that Turkey will be a country that is ruled by Shariah and that there is an imminent threat of reactionaryism. To prove their allegations, some media outlets constantly print photos of veiled women and men in Islamic attire.
April 11, 2011
My opinion on the ‘Imam’s Army,’ the book banned before it was published
Şahin Alpay
During my contacts with European parliamentarians, officials and Turkey experts in Brussels in the last week of March, I was posed questions about my opinion on the Fethullah Gülen movement in Turkey.
What did I think of the claim that the Gülen movement had infiltrated the entire judicial system and was controlling the police, prosecutors and judges that deal with the Ergenekon case? Was the Ergenekon case fabricated by the Gülen movement to silence the opposition to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government? Was the journalist Ahmet Şık detained because he had written “Imam’s Army,” a book that substantiates such claims? The following are my responses in brief.
During my contacts with European parliamentarians, officials and Turkey experts in Brussels in the last week of March, I was posed questions about my opinion on the Fethullah Gülen movement in Turkey.
What did I think of the claim that the Gülen movement had infiltrated the entire judicial system and was controlling the police, prosecutors and judges that deal with the Ergenekon case? Was the Ergenekon case fabricated by the Gülen movement to silence the opposition to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government? Was the journalist Ahmet Şık detained because he had written “Imam’s Army,” a book that substantiates such claims? The following are my responses in brief.
April 10, 2011
Black propaganda at home, black propaganda in the world
Abdülhamit Bilici
If four news stories smearing the Gülen Movement had not appeared one after another in three major Russian newspapers in a week, you would be reading my analysis concerning the developments in Syria, which was the most recent country to be affected by a wave of uprisings that swept through the Middle East.
But it is much more vital to draw attention to a disgraceful operation involving psychological warfare conducted in the Russian media against Turkey. Indeed, what is currently being done in Moscow is yet another concrete case of what has long been the case in Washington, Paris, Brussels and other capitals.
If four news stories smearing the Gülen Movement had not appeared one after another in three major Russian newspapers in a week, you would be reading my analysis concerning the developments in Syria, which was the most recent country to be affected by a wave of uprisings that swept through the Middle East.
But it is much more vital to draw attention to a disgraceful operation involving psychological warfare conducted in the Russian media against Turkey. Indeed, what is currently being done in Moscow is yet another concrete case of what has long been the case in Washington, Paris, Brussels and other capitals.
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