March 8, 2014

Fethullah Gulen: From Izmir to the Global Hizmet Movement

Emre Çelik*

Gulen's name has progressively reached a wider Western audience. From the New York Times to 60 Minutes, the average American has had slight and subtle exposure. But over the last two months, Gulen's name has been featured prominently in the global press (such as the BBC who scored a very rare video interview). Now there are thousands of references to his name in the world media. Attention is being paid.

Report: White House denies remarks attributed to Obama about Gülen

White House has reportedly denied remarks attributed to US President Barack Obama about Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, describing them as "not accurate."

Erdoğan's claims about Gülen stun US Ambassador Ricciardone

Ali H. Aslan

On Thursday evening, Ambassador Namık Tan, who has been appointed to Ankara, hosted Turkish and American guests at a goodbye reception at a historic residence of Turkey's Washington Embassy.

Hizmet, politics and political parties

İhsan Yılmaz

Recent days have brought about many baseless allegations in reference to the Hizmet (Gülen) movement and its relationship to politics.

EP kills parallel state lies

Abdullah Bozkurt

Nobody believes that the mass culling and reassignment of up to 10,000 public officials (most from the police department and the judiciary and many of whom are mid-level and senior personnel) so far by embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has anything to do with what the government purports is a fight against a “parallel structure,” a veiled reference to members of the Hizmet movement inspired by Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Scandalous return of Feb. 28

Abdülhamit Bilici

There were certainly regressions in the tutelary character of the regime in the last decade but we can hardly say we have managed to replace it with a democratic one. It is obvious that Turkey would head toward this position as it has distanced itself from democratic values and its European Union membership bid.

Turkish schools in Azerbaijan join SOCAR-financed int'l education complex

Turkish schools are among leading educational institutions that have joined an international educational complex financed by State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR), a statement from the Azerbaijani oil giant said on Wednesday.