A dean at a Turkish university was stabbed last week after arguing with students about the government’s enforcement of a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities. Zekeriya Beyaz, dean of the school ...
Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkey’s most prominent theologian and political thinker. Self-exiled for more than a decade, Gülen lives a reclusive life outside ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In the Beyoglu Anadolu religious school in Istanbul, gilded Korans line the shelves and on a table lies a Turkish translation of "Eclipse," a vampire-based fantasy romance by U.S.
When Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) first took power in 2002, they did so against the backdrop of a banking and financial crisis. In one day, the Turkish currency had lost 35 ...
FILE - Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pa., in July 2016. Chris Post / AP SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S ...
The story of METU's rainbow staircase is emblematic, especially in the light of broadening and unrelenting university protests against the government's authoritarian policies and its repression of ...
Turkish religious authorities have been careful in presenting the Hadith Project, launched some two years ago. The country's state committee on religious affairs, the Diyanet, reacted to last month's ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted ...
SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing unproven accusations that he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his ...