... e Turkish General Staff General Hüseyin Kivrikoglu declared that "the February 28th process will persist for a thousand year."[9] Yet, the February 28th process has ended by the 2001 economic crisis, whe ...
... , (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003), pp. 208-237. See also: Ihsan Yilmaz, "State, Law, Civil Society and Islam in Contemporary Turkey," Muslim World, Volume 95 No 3 (July 2005), pp ...
... sak, Huseyin Gulerce, and Serif Ali Tekalan from the JWF administration; and academics including Mehmet S. Aydin, Mete Tuncay, Niyazi Oktem, Durmus Hocaoglu, Hayreddin Karaman. [13] Politicians who ha ...
... ry Islam. Georgetown University (26-27 April). [6] Komecoglu, Ugur, quoted in Ihsan Yilmaz (2000) Changing Turkish-Muslim Discourses on Modernity, West and Dialogue. Paper presented at the Congress of the Int ...
... tegrate modern science, ethics and spirituality. Berberoglu (2000), a Turkish journalist, describes him as an opinion leader, and Aras (1998) sees him as "a most likely candidate for religious leader of ...
... , Turkish authors such as Beril Dedeoglu, Cem Ozdemir, Dogu Ergil, Etyen Mahcupyan, Ihsan Dagi, Ibrahim Kalin, Murat Yulek, Omer Taspinar, Suat Kiniklioglu, and non-Turkish contributors such as Hugh Po ...
... rom an essentialist point of view, Hizmet can be described as any volunteer service or work done for the community. [35] Ugur Kömeçoglu, "A Sociologically Interpretative Approach to the Fethullah Gülen Commun ...
... ch are the leaders of their genres, as well. Moreover, "the community controls one of the fastest growing financial institutions, Bank Asya (formerly known as Asya Finans). As Kömeçoglu argues, the commun ...
... erance. According to the respondents, his message embraces all humanity and is deeply averse to atheism, injustice, anarchy and conflict (Bayramoglu, 1995). His intercultural and interfaith dialogue cal ...
... states that according to Gülen, whatever is achieved by violent means will inevitably collapse'.[50] Violence cannot be seen as a means of achievement. Moreover, Gülen expresses that 'it is obvious th ...
... Indonesia. Islamoglu secured a place at the University of Indonesia in the Department of Indonesian Literature. In 1994, after about a year of studying in the university, Islamoglu informed Haji Alwi abo ...
... and organization, politics in Turkey is based on protective relationships[3] in which the very concepts of religion and democracy are misused (Fuller, 2004: 53; Cerrahoglu, 1995[4]). Yavuz (2000c: 22) ...
... re present at the finals ceremony included the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Democrat Party (DP) leader Mehmet Ağar and Minister of National Educati ...
... College General Manager Ahmet Yamakoğlu, who gave the opening speech, said they have given special significance to the issue of teaching Turkish to the Australian Turkish youth. "During this program o ...
... Monde Editor in Chief Sophie Gherardi, journalist-author Orhan Koloğlu and Professor Zafer Toprak from Boğaziçi University addressed the audience. Professor Azema said that both parties had to reveal ever ...
... oard Member Ali Yildirim stated his objections, which were found harsh and excessive by other participants. In response to this objection, the renowned Alevi figure Reha Çamuroğlu expressed his contentment ...
... t as a whole counts several hundred thousand members, making it one of the largest - maybe the largest - Islamic movement in Turkey. "Colegio Hercules is a secular school," the principal Mansur Ömercikoğ ...