Australian Catholic University Fethullah Gulen International Scholarship

Funded by the International Student Scholarship funds, the Fethullah Gulen International Scholarship was established in 2012 to support international students undertaking postgraduate research in the broad area of Muslim-Christian relations within the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy.

Kimse Yok Mu gathers ‘sister families’ at iftar

Zeynep Kırşan, Cihan Acar

Kimse Yok Mu, a Turkish charity, has brought philanthropists, families of martyrs and families in need together for an iftar.

Bank Asya campaign to support 1,000 students

Turkey's leading Islamic participation bank, Bank Asya, has announced that it will provide a monthly stipend to 1,000 students as part of its corporate social responsibility.

Kimse Yok Mu officials hand out aid with flashlights in rain

Mehmet Yaman

Despite the heavy rain, Kimse Yok Mu, a Turkish charity, continued distributing aid packages throughout the night with the aid of flashlights to Rohingya Muslims who have taken shelter in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh from the ongoing violence in their home country, Myanmar.

Turkey extends helping hand to Rohingya Muslims

Through the activities of various NGOs, philanthropists and the Turkish state, Turkey is continuing to send aid to the aggrieved in Myanmar’s Arakan province, where a massacre of Rohingya Muslims is being carried out by extremists.

Understanding Structure and Hierarchy in the Gülen Movement – 2

Martin Taylor

In my previous blog post, in an effort to understand and explain how the Gülen Movement (also called Hizmet) operates without a top-down organizational structure, I looked at Gore Inc, a privately owned high-tech company producing over a thousand products and an annual turnover of $2.5 billion with over 9,000 employees and factories in more than 30 countries. Gore Inc operates as a flat lattice organization without any organizational charts, without a hierarchy of managers and fixed lines of communications between them, without a chain of command and pre-assigned lines of authority and without bosses or titles. So I asked this straightforward question: if this huge, extremely successful international high-tech company can run its business on the basis of a flat lattice structure, then surely it should come as no surprise that a non-profit social movement could also do its work, and do it equally successfully, on the same basis – that is, without a central, hierarchical organization.

Gülen Donates $10k for Rohingya Aid

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has donated US $10,000 to support Rohingya Muslims who have become embroiled in sectarian violence since early June, reports Today’s Zaman. The cash was earned from the sale of his books and audio recordings and will be distributed through leading Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) to refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar over the border from Burma’s western Arakan State. Communal violence is grinding on despite the Naypyidaw government declaring a state of emergency with Muslim Rohingyas increasingly being targeted in attacks that have included killings, rape and physical abuse, claims Amnesty International.

Published on The Irrawaddy News Magazine, 31 July 2012, Tuesday

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Fethullah Gülen makes donation to needy Myanmar Muslims

Turkish Islamic scholar and intellectual Fethullah Gülen has donated $10,000 to support Myanmar Muslims who have long faced discrimination in the Asian country and have been targeted in killings by local Buddhists.

Academics from UK Impressed with Dialogue Efforts in Turkey

Academics from Britain visited Turkey for the “Debates on Multiculturalism 2” meeting, were also present at the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) to receive a presentation on dialogue efforts carried out by the foundation.

Six Days in Turkey... The Many Lessons

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Courtesy of a Turkey-based non-governmental organisation, Ufuk Foundation, select journalists from Nigeria visited Turkey recently during which they glimpsed the country’s secular and liberal life.

On July 8, 2012, six senior journalists based in Abuja, Nigeria left the country for Turkey. The desire to visit the country stemmed from various reasons: it is one of the few countries that belong to two continents and one of the countries that is an Islamic nation yet operates as if its a secular state.

Opposition to the Gulen Movement: Who and why? (2)

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What was the “West Working Group” and why did it target the Gülen Movement?

The West Working Group was a group set up initially within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK); it was subsequently abolished or modified into various tactical units. The West Working Group interfered with politics and governance and became a unit that planned anti-democratic schemes and putsch-like events. (Since the group was disbanded, its members have resurfaced in warfare units in the TSK that have continued to plot strategies for coup attempts.) The group claimed its name epitomized its adherence to Western values because Westernization is one of the fundamental principles of the Turkish Republic.