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…
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“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
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.…
What Went Wrong? Purge, Persecution, and the Imperative to Stand with the Innocent in Turkey
The disturbing meme depicting criminals impaled on hooks with the words “The ideal method of execution for [the…
“Have You No Sense of Decency?” An Open Letter to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Mr. Erdoğan: I have visited your lovely country no less than five times over the past ten years.…
A Meditation on Persecution
Among the many gospel hymns and spirituals that have provided strength for a suffering people over the decades,…
“And not equal are the good deed and the bad” – On Violence, Power, and Peace in Turkey’s Most Disastrous Year
Why do the most violent people in the world accuse the most peaceful of violence? The last year…
What Really Happened in Turkey on July 15, 2016? An Alternative to the Turkish Government Narrative
On July 15, 2016, Turkey experienced a horrific event: an unsuccessful military coup. But a year after the…