March 7, 2015

Gülen movement as creative and civil movement

Turgay Yavuz*

The Bergsonian philosophy had been a sanctuary for our intellectuals who used it to dispense with the "despair and darkness" in the face of the psychology of defeat stemming from the fall of the Ottoman Empire and drive the spiritual and psychological revival during the War of Independence. They sought to banish the effect of bleak moments by merging the modern mystical environment with folk customs and sufism in what Mustafa Şekip Tunç called creative perfection and what I referred to as a creative move -- which is one of the principles of the Bergsonian philosophy.

Kimse Yok Mu provides meal for 250 Syrians each day in southeastern Turkey

Turkish charity organization distributes meal every day for 250 Syrians who took refuge in Turkish southeastern province of Gaziantep due to ongoing war in their country.