Arcbishop Tutu awarded Gulen Peace award

A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate South African Arcbishop Desmond Tutu received Gulen Peace award at the Ubuntu Lecture and Dialogue Awards ceremony held in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening. The Turquoise Harmony Institute, which is a dialogue center inspired by the ideas of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, organized the ceremony. During his award acceptance speech Tutu said, “Wonderful thing to have a complexion like mine; you don’t realize when I am blushing. Adam could not be fully human on his own. We are programmed to be interdependent. I learn how to walk like a human being by imitating other human beings. We are fundamentally made for complementarity. A person is a person by other persons. To harm other is to harm oneself. ” Tutu is a social rights activist who is well known for his contributions to battle South African apartheid regime.

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