Gülen's defense against Erdoğan's onslaught

Abdullah Bozkurt

In April 2011, I asked the main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu about what he thought of the slanderous remarks uttered by his deputy İsa Gök. Gök had targeted Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen while at the speaker's podium in Parliament. Without hesitation, Kılıçdaroğlu criticized Gök's remarks, saying Parliament is a platform to criticize the actions of the government. “Targeting non-political people in Parliament is wrong and unacceptable,” he said, asking his deputies to refrain from criticizing people without any solid evidence. Let's contrast that with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's unrelenting attacks against Gülen since the corruption investigation of Dec. 17, 2013, which implicated himself, his family, his ministers and businessmen close to his government.

Why didn't Chuck Hagel visit Turkey?

Lale Kemal

Neither the US nor the European Union are of the general opinion that there is a “parallel state” headed by the Hizmet movement, whose leader, an Islamic scholar named Fethullah Gülen, lives in the US, while the Turkish government blames the movement for orchestrating a high-profile graft probe linked to allies of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Fethullah Gulen’s Prominence in Indonesia

Dr. Ali Unsal*

Indonesia is a brotherly country, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, with a potential to find a place for itself among the most developed countries in the world.

Toward a party state

Ekrem Dumanlı

A few years ago, we journalists asked Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan some questions at a TV interview aired on a news channel.