Erdoǧan’s Most Vulnerable Victims: Women and Children
Human rights violations in Turkey have increased exponentially in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 attempted coup.…
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Turkey’s Coup That Was Never a Coup
Note: I first wrote most of the words that follow these in August, 2016, a month after the…
Was Turkey’s Coup For Real?
Much speculation exists about the coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016. Some even call it a “false-coup,”…
Turkey: A State Under One-Man Rule
The July 15, 2016, failed military coup in Turkey, among others, has accelerated and strengthened the Erdoğan regime’s…
Civil Liberties in the Throes of Turkish Authoritarianism
Objectivity in political analysis is a luxury often claimed, but rarely earned. Governments, no matter how responsive to…
Judicial Independence No More: The Step-by-Step Destruction of the Rule of Law in Turkey
Judicial independence in Turkey has been dying for a long time, but it was annihilated after the July…
Erdoğan’s Fight against the Gülen Movement & The Demise of Turkish State Rationality
Since the corruption scandal of December 2013, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has waged an all-out war against…
No Return from Democracy: Democracy in the Thought of Gülen and Erdoğan’s Politics
Many countries around the world are facing a crises of democracy. With authoritarianism on the rise, countries from…
“Ours Is Not a Caravan of Despair” – The Hizmet Movement of Fethullah Gülen and the Common Good – A Perspective from the UK
The Hizmet (service, in Turkish) movement associated with the Turkish teacher Fethullah Gülen [b. 1941] is part of…
Hizmet Embraces the Entire Human Family
I’m saddened to hear that the Hizmet Movement here is being categorized as a terror group. I’ve been…
Fethullah Gülen Is One of the Most Distinguished Islamic Scholars of Our Century
The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, “Scholars are heirs of the prophets.” The Islamic intellectual, the…
Hizmet Is a True Embodiment of the Islamic Ideals of Love and Service to the Other
I have seen many un-Islamic cults play out in the word today: ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabab. Hizmet…
Editorial: Is There an American Muslim Song?
This question, posed by Dr. Ingrid Mattson during her address at the conference “Islam in America: Civic and…
Hidden Oceans in Frozen Worlds
Hidden Oceans in Frozen Worlds Saxena P. et al. Relevance of tidal heating on large TNOs. Icarus, December…
“Pen” diagnoses cancer in 10 seconds
A team of engineers and scientists has developed a “pen” that accurately identifies cancerous tissues during surgery within…