April 20, 2012

Students captivate audience in Moscow at Turkish Olympiads

Faruk Akkan, Yaşar Niyazbayev

Dmitry Peskov
The International Turkish Language Olympiads attracted great interest in their eighth edition on Monday in Moscow, where 215 students competed to win prizes in various categories, including song and poetry, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press attaché was awarded for his contributions to Turkish-Russian relations.

Altruistic service policy in Turkey

Yalçın Akdoğan, Star

Previously I wrote some articles that argued that Hizmet (the altruistic service promoted by Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen) was a spiritually oriented socio-cultural movement with important functions.