While some groups try to wrongly and ruthlessly defame the work of Fethullah Gulen and the Gulen Movement, others with common sense and a conscience look at things differently. The East West Institute recognized Mr. Gulen’s contributions to peace and ...

Fethullah Gulen warned the public opinion of a defamation campaign against the righteous work of Turkish volunteers around the world. This smear propaganda consists of a vicious circle of lies as Kerim Balci of Today’s Zaman put it in his ...

Turkey is undergoing a tremendous change and democratization process. In this continuum, those who would love to keep the status quo do everything they can to stop Turkey becoming a more open society with a much more transparent government. Latest ...

By Hadi Uluengin (Hurriyet Daily) To analyze the Gulen Movement, first we must agree on definitions. Such an agreement will set the discussion on a healthier and a more objective ground. That is because many accusations – rightly or wrongly, ...

Gulen Movement’s critics are having a hard time wrapping their heads around the selflessness aspect of the movement. Members of the movement are often faced with questions like “why are you sacrificing so much from yourself?” The answer they usually ...

Turkey rapidly becomes a central power in its region. Not only is it becoming an economic power, but also it sets an example for how democratic values can be adopted without having to shed parts of one’s native culture. Turkey ...

Defamation and libeling take many different forms, but they have a few things in common; lying, disinformation, and distortion. The almost global defamation campaign against Fethullah Gulen is no exception to that. On the surface, libelers seem to “uncover” very ...

There are people who are not going to be satisfied without destroying every single good in the world. In that quest they will utilize lies, will bring evidence from other lies, and will at the end believe their own fabrications ...

In the mid-90s, Turkey was at the brink of a civil war between its religious groups. Fethullah Gulen almost singlehandedly stopped that blood-shedding mascaraed by reaching out to Turkey’s Alevis and other religious minorities including Christians and Jews. He met ...

At the 4th Traditional Friendship Dinner hosted by the Turkish Cultural Center (TCC) and the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations in New York, Zaman Weekly, a publication which was recently launched in the US by the same media group as Today’s ...