December 17, 2013

Hakan Şükür’s resignation blamed on lack of intra-party democracy

Observers have associated Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Hakan Şükür’s decision to resign from the party on Monday with the ruling party’s lack of intra-party democracy, noting that Şükür’s resignation could be the start of wider instability within the party.

Mischief-makers and the Hizmet movement

Gültekin Avcı

Mischief-makers continue to work hard. Every objective conscience sees that the Hizmet movement now has to struggle for its rights and to defend itself against some unjust and fallacious accusations, such as that the Hizmet movement has created a parallel state, that it is an illegal organization and that it is even a junta.

German view of Hizmet Movement (1)

Ismail Kul

I remember the late, right-minded orientalist Annemarie Schimmel’s words saying, “The most attacked and least understood religion in the West is Islam.” Today, we come across a similar statement in a recently published scholarly report too. I’m referring to the report titled, “Überdehnt sich die Bewegung von Fethullah Gülen?” by Stiftung für Wissenschaftund Politik (SWP), which put the Hizmet Movement under a scholarly microscope.