September 3, 2014

Fethullah Gulen's Maxim: Live So That Others May Live

Emre Çelik

The above may in fact actually summarize the life meaning for those who participate in the Hizmet (aka Gulen Movement).

Former CIA officer says US policies helped create IS

American [author and former CIA officer] Graham Fuller emphasized that the West, including the United States, has now accepted that the [Bashar al-] Assad government will retain power. According to Fuller, Turkey has to do the same. Fuller, who described the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham [now the Islamic State, or IS] as "made in the USA," also made a confession of sorts about the struggle between [Turkey's Justice and Development Party] AKP and the Gulen movement by saying, “It turned out to be deeper than I thought.” But he noted that the positive approach of the Unite toward [Fethullah] Gulen has not changed.

Erdoğan tapes not doctored, daily claims

The interrogations of the police officers detained in the latest wave in a series of raids on officers accused of plotting to overthrow the government have revealed that audio recordings purportedly of now-President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that were released surrounding graft probes made public on Dec. 17 and Dec. 25, 2013 are authentic and not doctored, as has been claimed by Erdoğan and his aides.

Jurists suffocated by government pressure in state of 'revolt'

Statements given by top jurists on the occasion of the start of the new judicial year have revealed that the judiciary is, so to speak, in a state of revolt against the government's efforts to intervene in and redesign the judiciary.

Key witness in missionary murders claims intimidation

A formerly secret witness in the case of the murders of three Bible publishers in Malatya in 2007 has submitted two letters to the court alleging that certain persons attempted to intimidate him into changing his testimony.