April 23, 2014

Almost all experienced counter-terrorism officers removed in Diyarbakır

Some 490 police officers working in the counter-terrorism units of police departments in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır were removed from their posts earlier this week, and there are currently no experienced counter-terrorism police officers left in the province.

Erdoğan admits recording with son features his voice

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has publicly admitted that a leaked voice recording that had been alleged to be a conversation between Erdoğan and his son is authentic.

Hizmet in Context: Societal Islam versus Political Islam

Sabine Dreher*

The movement discussed here is according to Ebaugh (2010) a civic movement rooted in Islam that is independent from the state. Others see it simply as a faith-based movement (Esposito and Yilmaz 2010). Agai (2004) describes it as an education network and Hendrick (2009) as a global pressure group to promote Turkish interests. The difficulty with the movement is that ‘‘it does not easily fit into existing categories of religious organizations in the Muslim world’’ (Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life 2010, p. 18).