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 ...

Hizmet is the transnational social movement led by the Turkish Islamic scholar and thought leader Fethullah Gulen, whose main goal is to provide service to all the needy around the world. Hence the name, Hizmet, that translates to “Service”. Volunteers inspired ...

EXCELLENT GOODWILL AMBASSADORS The rift between Erdogan and Gulen represents the end of a political alliance that targeted the country’s secular traditions and paved the way for Erdogan’s populist brand of Islamism to dominate Turkish politics. In July 2014, he ...

Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) has sent TL 50 million worth of aid to Syrian Kurds who have fled from the town of Kobane to take refuge in Suruç, a district of Şanlıurfa province. The philanthropic group has distributed ...

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who resides in Pennsylvania, placed ads in leading US newspapers on Wednesday to condemn the atrocities of the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In the ads, which appeared in The New ...

While not being really active in the Middle East, Hizmet Movement nonetheless does have a role to play in the fight against extremism and violence in the region. Hizmet does not have a grand strategy or specific foreign policy towards ...

On August 22nd, Alliance for Shared Values, an umbrella organization for Gulen Movement affiliated institutions in the U.S., released Mr. Gulen’s statement on ISIS. On September 17th, an extended version of this condemnation appeared in The New York Times, The ...

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 ...

Turkey-based international relief organization Kimse Yok Mu was praised as a model relief organization by African Professor Yousuf Dadoo. Kimse Yok Mu is one of the largest charity organization in Turkey. They have spent 30 million dollars to help Syrians ...

The lawyer of the Gulen-inspired Fatih College Nejdet Solmazgul informed that he had filed criminal complaints against Istanbul Municipality and advertisement company Stroer Reklamcilik. He explained that the school administration rented ad space on billboards in various districts of Istanbul ...