Social cohesion is achieved with the well-being of all members of a society and is built on the tripod of social inclusion, social capital and social mobility. As cohesive societies minimize exclusion or marginalization, and provide a sense of belonging ...

Gulen Movement started in Turkey with people organizing around the ideals of Fethullah Gulen, a religious and social leader. In the backdrop of migration from rural areas to urban spaces and challenges posed by the nation state in a globalizing ...

For the 98 Issue of the “Fountain”, which is the bi-monthly magazine dedicated to scientific and spiritual thoughts, Turkish scholar and intellectual Fethullah Gulen wrote a beautiful article “The Power in Prayer and Supplication.” Written beautifully and organized neatly, this ...

Over the past several years, the Gulen Movement, a leading civil society movement in contemporary Turkey with a universal educational and interfaith agenda, has become a focus of scholarly research and public interest both in the Muslim world and the ...

I have just read an interesting and inspiring article titled “Faithfulness” in the most recent 103. Issue of the Fountain, which is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to scientific and intellectual thought (the article can be accessed via the following link: ...

Renewed interest in a world-wide civil society movement inspired by teachings of Fethullah Gulen has motivated many scholars outside Turkey to undertake full-time research on Gulen’s thoughts and philosophy. Yet few studies in English have attempted to examine Gulen’s ideas ...

Turkey’s President Erdogan went to his first overseas trip of 2015 on the African continent. Erdogan will go to four separate tours and will visit a total of 12 countries in Africa. According to the Social-Political Tendencies survey released on ...

On February 3rd 2015 one of the leading US media outlets New York Times published an Op-Ed written by the Turkish scholar Fethullah Gulen. In his article Fethullah Gulen addressed recent socio-political developments in Turkey expressing his sadness over policies of ...

Over the past several years, the Gulen Movement, also known as the “Hizmet Movement,” has become a focus of scholarly research and public interest in the English-speaking world. Numerous studies have explored various aspects of the movement, the role of ...

I read an interesting and thought-provoking article in the 100th Issue of Fountain, which is the bi-monthly journal dedicated to spiritual and scientific themes. The article is titled as “Sacred Suffering” and written by Turkish scholar, writer and intellectual Fethullah ...