VOA covers Turkish scholar Fethullah Gulen

(Video Duration: 1 min 35 secs)

While critics characterize the Gulen movement as a cult of personality, admirers prefer the term Hizmet movement, after the Turkish word for ‘service.’ And Aslandogan compared Fethullah Gulen to U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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Women's Role in Society – Contributions of the Gulen Movement

(Video Duration: 7 mins. 14 secs.)

Positive role of interfaith dialogue in curbing violence and discrimination against women was highlighted at the symposium held at United Nations, New York.

On February 12, Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Peace Islands Institute [a Gulen-inspired NGO in the US] co-organized symposium took place to commemorate World Harmony Day. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also sent a message to the event.

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Evolution of the Gulen Movement [Hizmet]

(Video Duration: 1 hr. 30 mins.)

Members of the Center for Strategic and International Studies gathered in Washington DC for a follow up discussion on the Gulen Movement on October 19, 2012.

The group's director Dr. Bulent Aliriza hosted the discussion... and said that the Gulen movement, perhaps more than any other in overall Turkish picture, has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, criticism, suspicion, in spite of all the good work that is being done...

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Gulen Movement - An Example to the 'Committed Core' in Promoting Peace through Education

(Video Duration: 19 mins. 3 secs.)

Alp Aslandogan, Ph.D.

An international group of educators and convened for the inaugural "Peacebuilding Through Education" summit sponsored by Fountain Magazine, the Peace Islands Institute and co-sponsored by regional universities as well as the Alliance for Shared Values. The goal of the summit was to show how lessons of tolerance, understanding and intercultural respect can be woven into classroom curriculum or extracurricular activities. Throughout the day, speakers offered insights and strategies for building character in the classroom and creating a safe learning environment to incubate future leaders of more peaceful communities.

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CBS 60 minutes: Fethullah Gulen advocates education

Alp Aslandogan, Ph.D.

(Video Duration: 2 mins. 6 secs.)

CBS 60 minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl (LS) is interviewing Alp Aslandogan (AA), President of Institute of Interfaith Dialogue in Houston, Texas regarding the ideas of Fethullah Gulen on education:

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Gulen gave us the roadmap for dialogue with different faiths, says Congresswoman Lee

(Video Duration: 3 mins. 11 secs.)

Texas State Rep. Alma Allen (L),
Alp Aslandogan of IID (C),
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

The Institute of Interfaith Dialogue (IID) held its 7th Annual Dialogue and Friendship Dinner in Houston, Texas on November 24th, 2009.

Guests, which included Houston Police Department, several leading universities, the FBI, and Texas Turkish American Chamber of Commerce among dozens of other groups, tasted the possibility of peaceful existence between people of different faiths.

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