December 8, 2014

[BOOK REVIEW] Preventing Violence and Achieving World Peace: The Contributions of the Gulen Movement

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One might think that a seemingly utopian goal of preventing violence and achieving world peace is a finished debate because conceptual and theoretical discourse related to ethnic and confessional discord have reached an impasse. However, despite the fact that founding principles of modern liberalism, laid by the Enlightenment-era thinkers, have been contemplated for centuries, still humans face great challenges in putting some of these principles in practice. Soltes and Johnson undertake a difficult intellectual project by pondering whether we as people can address apparently endless conflicts in the world, particularly those arising from misunderstandings of Islam.

As Hagupit Strikes the Philippines ASYA Group of Kimse Yok Mu put on full alert

Typhoon Hagupit which was slammed into Philippines on Friday with 175 km/h velocity forced 2.5 million people to leave their homes. Turkish charity of Kimse Yok Mu’s ASYA search and rescue team representative held a press conference in Istanbul on Monday about the disaster and give critical information about latest situation in the locations which have been severely hit by typhoon Hagupit.