April 11, 2012

Fethullah Gulen undergoes a successful cataract surgery

Well-respected Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has undergone a cataract surgery at a Philadelphia hospital and is in good health, the private Cihan news agency reported on Wednesday.

How Fethullah Gulen fought the vicious circle between poverty and illiteracy

Ertuğrul Yasir

Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter due to the inability to afford them. This condition is also referred as the absolute poverty. According to the World Bank, 1.4 billion people in the developing world live on absolute poverty, which is usually assumed as living on less than $1.25 a day. Relative poverty, on the other hand, is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages.