Commentary
All your questions about the Turkey coup, answered
What happened? What do I need to know? Late at night on July 15, a group of Turkish soldiers took over several institutions in... Read More
Fethullah Gülen on Acts of Terrorism – in light of Paris and Beirut
Once again terrorists have struck out at innocent people in Paris and Beirut. To add insult to injury, as if that were possible at... Read More
Dar al-Hizmet / Abode of Service in a Globalized World
It is clear that there are some Islamic concepts which have been abused to find ground for radical activities. For instance, the concepts of... Read More
Hizmet, Gaza and the 14-year-old boy
I cannot say “I feel,” as feeling is required, but neither can I deny my God-given nature of being deeply moved by the suffering,... Read More
Erdogan’s war against Hizmet: Step by step
Turkish prosecutors carried out a number of arrests and raids on the morning of 17th December 2013 as part of a series of on-going... Read More
Tamsil: The inadvertent overspill of internalization
I was once the warden of a student hostel at which my younger brother was also a resident. One evening he asked my permission... Read More
The Pigeon, The Finger, and Hizmet’s ‘Inevitable Ambiguity’
Like ‘beauty’, ambiguity can be in the eye of the beholder. While there are Hizmet-related reasons for some of Hizmet’s ambiguity, there are even... Read More
Diverging points between AKP and Hizmet movement: Kurdish question
In his recent article in Der Spiegel, Maximilian Popp tries to analyze recent tension between the Hizmet movement and the Justice and Development Party... Read More
Understanding Structure and Hierarchy in the Gulen Movement – 2
In my previous blog, in an effort to understand and explain how the Gülen Movement (also called Hizmet) operates without a top-down organizational structure,... Read More
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One Night in Turkey
President Erdogan has defeated the military coup in Turkey with the help of a popular mobilisation and loyal military chiefs. He now needs to... Read More