June 3, 2014

"Hizmet Movement making tremendous contributions to Muslim culture"

Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 1 (Full text)

Jihad Turk
Jihad Turk
My name is Jihad Turk.**

And I am the president of Bayan Claremont, an Islamic graduate school at Claremont School of Theology.

I have a very positive impression of the Hizmet Movement and Fethullah Gulen.

Witch-hunts in Europe

Ali Yurttagül

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's defense, with his unique self-confidence, of his discourse, which has undertones of a witch-hunt against the Fethullah Gülen movement, has not surprised anybody, though many people have found it odd.

Government drags military into politics

Lale Kemal

Ironically, it is the same Turkish government that curbed the political power of the military, thanks to reforms in 2003 and 2004, that has now been taking measures to drag it back into politics.

GYV awards peace projects in İstanbul ceremony

The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), which will make a donation of $50,000 to international peace projects developed to prevent conflict in the world and present solutions for them, held a ceremony in İstanbul on Friday in which 10 peace projects were given awards.

Erdoğan raising new army of political Islamists

Abdullah Bozkurt

Just like the recently passed intelligence legislation that Turkish spymaster Hakan Fidan lobbied hard for with Islamist politicians, including the Turkish president and prime minister, since the intel chief considered it a crucial tool to allow to him to restructure his agency to be on par with Iranian intelligence, according to insider accounts from the Turkish capital, the fast-tracked and head-spinning new initiatives in the national education policies of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government in Turkey have increasingly started to reflect Iranian influence and mirror that experience.

Gezi's anniversary and Erdoğan's disproportionate politics

Mümtazer Türköne

Disproportionate force refers to the use of excessive force by security units; likewise, we can also speak of the disproportionate use of politics by powerful politicians against weaker political opponents.