December 12, 2013

Erdogan v Gulen*

Fethullah Gulen
Fethullah Gulen
THE biggest achievement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, during a decade of rule, has been to get the army out of politics. He did it with the help of the country’s most influential Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen (pictured), who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania but commands a global network of schools, charities and media outlets.

Is the Hizmet movement resisting normalization?

Selim Savaş Genç*

“Seizing control within the state” is one of the gravest unwritten crimes that can be committed in this country because when those who believe that they acquired state power before you make this accusation, they are actually admitting that they had seized the power which they have.

More Divisions, More Democracy

Mustafa Akyol*

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. But these days an internal clash is raging among the conservatives themselves. And it could be a boon for Turkish democracy.

Toronto Nile Academy students’ worthwhile donation for the Philippines

The students of Nile Academy in Toronto, Canada, delivered the monetary donation from their pocket money to the Philippine Consul General in Toronto.

27th 'Covering Turkey' meeting discusses voter trends

Turkey's domestic political arena is feeling tense under the heat from the nearing elections. In the wake of the opposition's boycotting of Parliament after the 2011 parliamentary elections and the security concerns relating to the Syrian crisis and the Gezi Park protests, the latest round of tension has manifested itself between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party or AKP) and the Hizmet movement.

Turkish Syriac Catholic patriarch launches ‘Fruits of Dialogue’

Diyaloğun Meyveleri” (Fruits of Dialogue), a book by Deputy Patriarch of the Turkish Syriac Catholic Church Yusuf Sağ, was launched at a reception held at Taksim Green Park Hotel in İstanbul on Tuesday night.