June 13, 2014

Yes, Love Is a Verb!

Arzu Kaya-Uranlı

"This is the story of a man... a Turkish Muslim... a scholar... a preacher... and the global movement of social activists he inspires... In 2013, Time Magazine named him one of the most influential leaders in the world... Because of his influence... at risk children are now being educated in hundreds of countries... The sick are being treated... and the starving are fed... often at great personal risk... It's also because of his influence... and the collective power of the movement... that Fethullah Gülen is feared and even reviled in his native Turkey... And as a Muslim leader of a powerful global movement, he is scrutinized in the United States... where he lives in self-imposed exile."

Tamsil: The inadvertent overspill of internalization

Özcan Keleş

I was once the warden of a student hostel at which my younger brother was also a resident. One evening he asked my permission to go out for a while. I asked him where he intended to go. He said, “Home.” I asked him if he intended to change his intention along the way. Looking down, slightly embarrassed but mainly annoyed that I had caught him out, he replied in the affirmative. By “planting” the intention of going home “on top” of his intention to later revise that intention, he thought he would escape both lying and getting caught; he was mistaken on both counts. Intention is not everything, but it is something and something that matters at that. In Islam, “actions are judged according to their intentions” (hadith). In law, actus reus (guilty action) and mens rea (guilty mind/intent) must, bar some exceptions, co-exist in the same time and space for the crime to occur.

Turkish, Russian businessmen convene at forum

Turkish and Russian businessmen convened at the Tula Regional Investment Forum, in the city of Tula on Friday, according to the Cihan news agency.

25 Bangladesh firms to join trade fair in Turkey

Twenty-five Bangladeshi companies from construction and furniture sectors will take part in the “Turkey World Trade Bridge” in Istanbul from June 16-22.