Kimse Yok mu (Anybody Out There?), Turkey’s largest global aid organization, is the latest victim of Erdogan regime in Turkey. Since the anti-graft stings last December Erdogan is acting on his paranoia of a “parallel state” (?), and using all ...
Read More »Discussion of Erdogan’s Attacks on GM With an Example
In this piece I would like to address another defamation campaign against Mr. Gulen (aka Hocaefendi), this time led by the former PM Mr. Erdogan. I will give two “ordinary” excerpts from campaign rallies of Erdogan. One of the excerpts ...
Read More »Joyce Davis: The World Needs Moderate Voices Such as Gulen
Joyce Davis, the president of the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the author of two books about Islam, recently gave interview to Turkish newspaper Zaman. She discussed ISIS, Islamophobia and also mentioned Hizmet Movement inspired by ideas of Turkish ...
Read More »Kimse Yok Mu is Still Working Despite Government’s Efforts
Recently leading Turkish banks unlawfully blocked the banks accounts of Kimse Yok Mu by the government’s decision. Yusuf Yildirim, who is foreign aid coordinator or Kimse Yok Mu, told Turkish newspaper Zaman that despite all difficulties Kimse Yok Mu managed ...
Read More »David Shinn: Turkey Will Hurt Its Interests, If Government Shuts Kimse Yok Mu
In an interview with Turkish news agency Cihan, David Shinn, former Director for East African Affairs for the US State Department, stated that if Erdogan’s government shuts down Kimse Yok Mu, which is one of the largest non-profit charity organizations ...
Read More »Gulen’s Condolences to Iraqi and Syrian Families
Islamic Scholar Fethullah Gulen‘s condemnation message on ISIL had been published on well respected US newspapers such as New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times on September 17, which indeed the original statement ...
Read More »Toward an Islamic Enlightenment: The Gulen Movement
The question of compatibility of Islam with various “isms” such as secularism, liberalism, capitalism, and modernism has become a focus of many intellectual debates since about the Iranian Revolution. Renewed interest in religion and religious movements has inspired many social ...
Read More »Gaza Group: Government’s Oppressive Policy Against Kimse Yok Mu Harms the Poor
The chairman of Gaza Peace Volunteers Association Dr. Nasser al-Sadi expressed his concern about government’s decision to cancel Kimse Yok Mu’s permission to collect public donations for the rest of the year. “Kimse Yok Mu is one of the charities ...
Read More »‘Parallel’ Lies Will not Patch Giant Tear, Gülen Tells Government
As a response to government’s slander that people from Hizmet Movement were responsible for the recent violent protests against the siege of Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL). In response to ...
Read More »Better Education: The Only Solution Against Radicalism in The Middle East or Anywhere Else
Middle East keeps being the epic center of conflict and violence for so long now; we don’t find it odd anymore. Some of us even relate it to the ethnicity or the religious backgrounds of the peoples living in that ...
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