Public outrage over allegations suggesting that the Hizmet movement is aiming to seize control of Turkish football team Fenerbahçe continues to snowball, with many sports figures slamming the allegations for being manipulative efforts to defame the movement.
May 26, 2012
Gülen movement, AK Party and the police might be potential targets for PKK, says analyst
Fatma Dişli Zıbak
In recent days the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has launched several deadly attacks in various provinces across Turkey and kidnapped 10 people in a southeastern province, signaling an end to its winter hibernation, when it retreats to its hideouts due to poor weather conditions that make it difficult to stage attacks. Once winter ends the PKK typically springs back into action and begins staging attacks against mostly security targets in the East and Southeast.
In recent days the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has launched several deadly attacks in various provinces across Turkey and kidnapped 10 people in a southeastern province, signaling an end to its winter hibernation, when it retreats to its hideouts due to poor weather conditions that make it difficult to stage attacks. Once winter ends the PKK typically springs back into action and begins staging attacks against mostly security targets in the East and Southeast.
May 25, 2012
A study tour of Turkey
Dr. Tariq Rahman
The hospitality of Turkey, more precisely the Gulen Movement, started in Pakistan in the form of a call by Harun Koken who looks after the Turkish schools in Pakistan, the Rumi circle and a number of other educational activities in Pakistan. He gave me a book entitled The Gulen Movement: Civic Society Without Borders (2010) by Muhammad Cetin and later the air ticket to Istanbul. So one day when the morn had not yet dawned, I found myself with my old colleague and friend Dr Rasul Bakhsh Rais on my way to Turkey.
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| Gulen Movement by Muhammed Cetin |
A Visit with Turkey's Controversial Religious Movement
Piotr Zalewski
It is Monday evening in Diyarbakir, a city in Turkey's southeast, and a weekly meeting of several local members of the so-called Gulen movement has begun with a book reading. One of the eight men present — this is an all-boys affair — picks up a paperback by Fethullah Gulen, the charismatic Islamic preacher after whom the movement is named, and reads out a few paragraphs. The subject is one of the central tenets of Gulen's philosophy: hizmet, service to others. Once the reading ends, a few of the other members — smiling beneath cropped mustaches — begin to extemporize on the difficulties and rewards of teaching and the challenges of shaping young minds.
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| Children attend a class at Fatih College in Istanbul April 16, 2008. The 640-pupil school is run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim preacher who advocates moderate Islam rooted in modern life. (Photo: Osman Orsal - Reuters) |
May 24, 2012
10th International Turkish Olympiads prepares to offer glorious performances
İpek Üzüm
The 10th International Turkish Olympiads, which brings together hundreds of foreign students each year from Turkish schools established throughout the world, is preparing to offer glorious performances from 1,500 foreign students representing 135 countries this year.
The 10th International Turkish Olympiads, which brings together hundreds of foreign students each year from Turkish schools established throughout the world, is preparing to offer glorious performances from 1,500 foreign students representing 135 countries this year.
‘Claims of Hizmet seizing control of Fenerbahçe are groundless’
Prominent figures from the world of sports, the arts and business have slammed allegations suggesting that the Hizmet movement aims to seize control of Turkish football team Fenerbahçe amid the ongoing match-fixing saga that has been rocking the Turkish football scene since last July.
May 23, 2012
Virtual madness
Ekrem Dumanlı
Opinion is honor, column is dignity. Thinking is a strong and tough mission that Allah assigns to us. In the process of writing, the writer has to think and act carefully so that he will not be embarrassed. History will ask for an answer to every single line that is written; it questions your courage, patience and prudence. And then the people’s conscience grades your performance. That grade determines your overall caliber.
Opinion is honor, column is dignity. Thinking is a strong and tough mission that Allah assigns to us. In the process of writing, the writer has to think and act carefully so that he will not be embarrassed. History will ask for an answer to every single line that is written; it questions your courage, patience and prudence. And then the people’s conscience grades your performance. That grade determines your overall caliber.
1,500+ Sudanese children have been circumcised in 2 days
More than 1,500 children have been circumcised in 2 days during the Somalia-Sudan Circumcision Campaign which was launched with the cooperation of KYM and ESAFED (Aegean International Federation of Health).
Since May 7th, the start of the campaign, 750 children in the Medeni region, 700 children in the Atbara region, and 130 children in the Port Sudan region had circumcisions. 3 health teams, including 6 people each, are continuing to perform circumcision operations in 4 different cities (Hartum, Fendi, Medeni, and Port Sudan.)
Since May 7th, the start of the campaign, 750 children in the Medeni region, 700 children in the Atbara region, and 130 children in the Port Sudan region had circumcisions. 3 health teams, including 6 people each, are continuing to perform circumcision operations in 4 different cities (Hartum, Fendi, Medeni, and Port Sudan.)
May 22, 2012
Gülen says acts of violence at stadiums not ‘coincidental’
Well-respected Turkish intellectual and scholar Fethullah Gülen has said recent acts of violence at football stadiums by hooligans are not coincidental, adding the events were orchestrated by circles that wish to destroy the peaceful atmosphere of Turkey.
Turkey and hidden fanaticisms
Emre Uslu
Recent nonsensical arguments that the Gülen movement wants to control the Fenerbahçe football club and its political and social effect on Fenerbahçe fans once again proved that Turkey is not a country of rational people.
Now, even under the pressure of Fenerbahçe and perhaps for political reasons, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish Football Federation's (TFF) Professional Football Discipline Committee (PFDK) has admitted that Fenerbahçe executives committed the crime of match fixing. The evidence in the court file is so obvious that even the TFF, which was selected to cover the stinking truth about Fenerbahçe and other football clubs' involvement in the match-fixing crime, had to admit that such things took place.
Recent nonsensical arguments that the Gülen movement wants to control the Fenerbahçe football club and its political and social effect on Fenerbahçe fans once again proved that Turkey is not a country of rational people.
Now, even under the pressure of Fenerbahçe and perhaps for political reasons, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish Football Federation's (TFF) Professional Football Discipline Committee (PFDK) has admitted that Fenerbahçe executives committed the crime of match fixing. The evidence in the court file is so obvious that even the TFF, which was selected to cover the stinking truth about Fenerbahçe and other football clubs' involvement in the match-fixing crime, had to admit that such things took place.
May 21, 2012
Gülen Movement as a Change Agent
Halit Kara
The Gülen Movement, although it initially sprouted as a faith-based movement in Turkey in the late 1970s by a few Turkish followers of Fethullah Gülen, seemingly portraying a new formation as a result of a slightly different interpretation of Nursi (Said Nursi) tradition, a historical and ontological analysis of the movement indicates that Gülen movement is a social movement that does not have religious, ethnic, cultural and political agenda. Seemingly a faith-based movement but beyond any faith, cultural movement but hosting members of other cultures in its body, Gülen movement today demonstrates a harmonious global network of volunteers, teachers, intellectuals, students, businessmen/women of any ethnic, religious, race, and socio-economic backgrounds who are inspired by Gülen’s social philosophy based on dialogue and peaceful coexistence[i].
The Gülen Movement, although it initially sprouted as a faith-based movement in Turkey in the late 1970s by a few Turkish followers of Fethullah Gülen, seemingly portraying a new formation as a result of a slightly different interpretation of Nursi (Said Nursi) tradition, a historical and ontological analysis of the movement indicates that Gülen movement is a social movement that does not have religious, ethnic, cultural and political agenda. Seemingly a faith-based movement but beyond any faith, cultural movement but hosting members of other cultures in its body, Gülen movement today demonstrates a harmonious global network of volunteers, teachers, intellectuals, students, businessmen/women of any ethnic, religious, race, and socio-economic backgrounds who are inspired by Gülen’s social philosophy based on dialogue and peaceful coexistence[i].
Gülen Movement: Connection with Niagara Foundation
Caroline Pahl *
Whenever I mention the Gülen movement, I get reactions like, “That’s controversial,” or “That’s a touchy subject.” So I want to explore it: I will be exploring the reason behind its controversy, its role in the democratization of Turkey, and its connection with the educational system of more than 140 countries.
Whenever I mention the Gülen movement, I get reactions like, “That’s controversial,” or “That’s a touchy subject.” So I want to explore it: I will be exploring the reason behind its controversy, its role in the democratization of Turkey, and its connection with the educational system of more than 140 countries.
May 20, 2012
Factory settings
Abdülhamit Bilici
If we were to give a title to an article discussing the problems most heatedly debated in Turkey, I think the best option would be “Woes of transitioning from an empire to a nation-state.”
If we were to give a title to an article discussing the problems most heatedly debated in Turkey, I think the best option would be “Woes of transitioning from an empire to a nation-state.”
An unusual group of Turkish businessmen: Anatolian Tigers
Atul Aneja
Watch out! Anatolian Tigers on the prowl.
They are an unusual group of Turkish businessmen endowed with a strong work ethic, a great spirit of public service, and who revel in camaraderie. Many of them are young first generation “capitalists”, emerging from humble backgrounds and hailing from the small towns and villages of Anatolia — once disparaged by Europhiles as the “backward” Asiatic part of Turkey.
Watch out! Anatolian Tigers on the prowl.
They are an unusual group of Turkish businessmen endowed with a strong work ethic, a great spirit of public service, and who revel in camaraderie. Many of them are young first generation “capitalists”, emerging from humble backgrounds and hailing from the small towns and villages of Anatolia — once disparaged by Europhiles as the “backward” Asiatic part of Turkey.
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