Fethullah Gulen Tolerance, Dialogue and Peace
JWF, whose honorary president is the Honorable Fethullah Gulen, has been organizing a series ofmeetings where the intellectuals of Turkey and other countries get together to discuss current issues,make recommendations for solutions and determine the root causes of many socioeconomic problemsof our time. The first meeting took place in Abant, Bolu in Turkey therefore they are called the AbantPlatform meetings. Every year the platform takes on a major issue, this year’s was “Different Perspectiveson Turkey.” One of the participants, Professor Hans Köchler of Austria’s International ProgressOrganization gave an interview to Today’s Zaman in which he analyzed the West’s, sometimes prejudiced,attitude towards Turkey and Islam. Professor Köchler described Islam as the new phenomenon that wasbeing built as the enemy of the West and Fethullah Gulen as the one who help the world realize that Islamis an integral part of today’s world.
The Abant Platform organized by the Journalists and Writers’ Foundation (GYV) hosted a wide range of participants from different walks of life at the traditional Abant meetings to discuss the “Diverse Perspectives on Turkey” on Feb. 8-10…
