Recent Commentary

• Islam is Compatible with Democracy, Despite Turkey’s Recent Example

  
  Fethullah Gulen

  26 Feb 2019

  Turkey was hailed as an example for a modern Muslim democracy during the early 2000s. The current ruling party that came to power in...   Read More

• Review: ‘The Spirituality of Responsibility: Fethullah Gülen and Islamic Thought’

  
  Dr Minlib Dallh

  7 Jul 2017

  With regard to leadership and vision, the Sunni Muslim world seems to be in disarray. None of the following leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdel...   Read More

• Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup

  
  Ozcan Keles

  9 Sep 2016

  Introduction Gareth Jenkins once criticised Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of ‘projective’ rather than deductive reasoning, working backwards...   Read More