MEP Rebecca Harms on Asylum for Cabuk

Member of European Parliament Rebecca Harms, on a visit to Georgia to lobby for Mustafa Cabuk’s asylum in Georgia, visited Cabuk in prison. Prior to her visit, GEORGIA TODAY met her for an exclusive interview.

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

Now a rare interview with a man who stands accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in his native country, Turkey, all of this from his home in the Pocono Mountains. Yesterday, he sat down with our colleague Robert Siegel at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pa.

Fethullah Gulen’s Video Message for International Women’s Day

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I expressed my views on women’s rights in an interview to the Muslim World journal shortly after arriving in the United States.

Journalist asks Nigerian National Security Adviser to stop Turkish espionage

Kreazetofa Odey

Suleiman Uba Gaya is the vice president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors and a member of the World Editors Forum. In this interview with select journalists, he bares his mind on why he had to write a petition to the Nigerian National Security Adviser, warning the country of the possibility of Turkey engaging in espionage against Nigeria.

Fethullah Gulen addresses World Affairs Council of Philadelphia about Turkey's failed coup

Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric accused of fomenting a failed coup in Turkey, spoke at length about the post-coup crackdown and denounced Turkish oppression of his supporters and other dissidents.

Fethullah Gülen, the preferred enemy

Turkish president Recep Erdogan blames Fethullah Gulen, the Hizmet leader, for the coup attempt on July 15, when 300 people were killed. Hizmet is an Islamic movement with activities in more than 180 countries. To its followers, "the Gulenists", Gulen — a man with swallow feet and low voice who says he spends most of his time praying and studying — is a democrat in favor of the Turkish democratization. At 77, Gulen lives in the US. The Turkish government sent an extradition request for him. If granted, he would have to face life prison plus 1900 years in jail, according to Turkish prosecutors. Reclusive, he agreed to answer written questions and afterwards received a reporter for a rare conversation in his home surrounded by gardens in rural Pennsylvania, where he lives since 1999.

Fethullah Gülen: «President Erdogan is suffering from power poisoning»

Interview with US-based Turkish imam who denies any role in the recent failed coup in Turkey] Interview with US-based Turkish imam who denies any role in the recent failed coup in Turkey

INTERVIEW: Turkey ‘looking for scapegoats’ by linking schools in Nigeria to failed coup

The management of the Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC) says the Turkish government wants to shut down its investments in Nigeria because of its philosophical affiliation with Fethullah Gulen.

Interview with Fethullah Gulen in Kenya's Daily Nation

1. What is your mission statement? How can you explain your message to the people of the world?

I don't believe that I have a special mission. I am trying to be able to be a human being among other human beings. The honor God has granted us as "humanity" is sufficient for me.

Mr. Fethullah Gülen's interview for Moskovskiy Komsomolets newspaper

Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vitaly Naumkin has made an interview with Mr. Fethullah Gülen in Pennsylvania, the US. In the interview that was published at one of Russia's most popular newspapers, Moskovskiy Komsomolets (MK), Mr. Gülen talked about the aircraft crisis between Russia and Turkey, the divided state of the Muslim world, secularism, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and terrorism. "Certain things done [the Turkish government] in recent years were wrong. The downing of that warplane was wrong," he said.

Nizamiye Will Perform 15,000 Cardiac Procedures In Nigeria

Media Consultant Cemal Yigit runs a media and production company for a large number of Turkish multi-corporations in Nigeria. In this interview with Chikelu Chinelo, he speaks on the philosophy of the Hizmet movement which gave wings to the multi-corporations and 100 scholarship the Turkish Schools off Nigerians annually as well as the impact of Turkish companies and charitable foundations in the lives of Nigerians and the Nigerian economy.

Seattle-area imam takes on religious radicalism, prayers of ‘Death to America’

One Seattle-area imam’s attempt to call out extremism continues Tuesday, Dec. 15, in a public dialogue titled “Combating the Cancer of Extremism.” He says, “I have to categorically reject indiscriminate slogans of death.”

Kimse Yok Mu to share perspectives at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There?) a Turkey-based humanitarian aid organization will participate in the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City September 26–29, which will be hosted by former US President Bill Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton.

Fountain’s Yeşilova: We believe human life and the universe are each a book to read

English-language The Fountain magazine Editor-in-Chief Hakan Yeşilova has said his magazine has an editorial policy that promotes love and respect for all, adding that they see human life and the universe as books that need to be read.

Academic: AKP’s Green Kemalist regime might descend into totalitarianism

Expect more election rigging by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party or the AKP) and even totalitarianism with no checks and balances if it wins the June 7 elections, academic İhsan Yılmaz says.

Speaking Truth to Power in Turkey: An Interview with Ekrem Dumanli

Yohuru Williams

Last December, veteran Turkish journalist, newspaper executive and playwright Ekrem Dumanli made headlines after he was detained by Turkish authorities on charges of "forming, leading and being a member of an armed terrorist organization." Dumanli's supporters maintained that his only real crime was pressing for greater transparency and accountability from the government. Dumanli's appreciation for the importance of a free press has deep roots. Having worked for the Culture and Art Desk of the daily Zaman through most of the 1990s, he earned a Masters Degree from Emerson College in Boston, before returning to Turkey in 2001 to helm Zaman as its editor-in-chief. Through his vision and guidance, the newspaper's circulation grew, increasing from 150,000 to a million readers within a decade. Dumanli's influence has not been overlooked. In 2009, he earned a place on a list complied by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre and published by Georgetown University of the world's 500 Most Influential Muslims. Such prominence has come at a price. On December 14, 2014 he was among a number of journalists rounded up in government raids on media outlets. Despite the seriousness of the allegations against him and the dramatic way in which he and his colleagues were taken into custody, five days later he was released due to lack of evidence. I first became aware of the situation after Turkish protesters connected government repression in Turkey with the hash tag "We can't breathe". They were linking their efforts with the Black Lives Matter social media campaign related to the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown in the United States. After his release, I had the opportunity to interview Dumanli with the hopes of shedding further light on what's happening in Turkey with regards to the freedom of the press, state of democracy, and the Hizmet movement. His words reaffirm the need for us to remain vigilante concerning threats to democratic practice both at home and abroad.

Law Prof. Karahan: Hate crimes against Hizmet can be prosecuted at ECtHR, ICC

The Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has taken over management control of some of the privileged shares of Bank Asya as part of a government-operated crackdown on institutions affiliated with the Gülen movement, also known as Hizmet, and shareholders will be filing a lawsuit against the action, but this week's guest for Monday Talk has said it is likely that the case will end up at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and even at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

EU on 'parallel state' claims: ‘We don't use conspiracy theories'

What do the EU leaders think of the “parallel state” claims of the Turkish ruling party in regards to the Gülen movement (Hizmet movement)?

Dr. Rainer Hermann: ’Erdoğan wants to build a regime according to his wishes!’

"Even if [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan wanted to transform Turkey into a dictatorship, he would not succeed.

Journalist reveals inspiring story of Turkish schools in book

Ankara-based journalist Mesut Çevikalp has written a book about the little-known stories of Turkish schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs in various parts of the world, including the moving and hardship-laden stories of education volunteers working at these schools, most of whom left a better life in Turkey with the hope of promoting universal values of peace, dialogue and peaceful coexistence with others.