Hizmet (Gulen) Movement's fields of activity

(Video Duration: 14 min 55 secs)

Dr. Dogan Koc, Executive Director of the Gulen Institute at the University of Houston, lists the Hizmet (Gulen) Movement’s fields of activity in parallel with the three enemies of the society -namely poverty, ignorance and disunity- that they are aimed to eliminate. As Koc puts it, the movement’s activities fall into three main categories; education, aid/relief and dialogue all of which are developed and run by a voluntary basis.

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"The Hizmet Movement" by Dogan Koc

(Video Duration: 1 hr 6 min)

South Carolina Dialogue Foundation hosted its “Distinguished Speaker Series” on September 16-18 in Charleston, Clemson, Columbia and Greenville respectively. Speaker Dr. Dogan Koc, Executive Director of the Gulen Institute at the University of Houston, delivered his lecture on "The Hizmet (aka Gulen) Movement: Origin, Activities, Structure, and the Critics."

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Fethullah Gulen's strategic defamation

(Video Duration: 3 mins 4 secs)

In his presentation based on his paper and book entitled "Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gulen: Turkish vs English" which argues the defamation efforts happen in a campaign manner not randomly, Dogan Koc of Cairo University analyzes references of the articles and books which offer totally contradicting pictures of Gulen based on the based sources.

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Strategic defamation of Fethullah Gulen

(Video Duration: 58 mins. 20 secs.)

Dogan Koc, Ph.D.

Who is Gulen? Fethullah Gülen is a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar who is known mostly for his education and dialogue activities. The Hizmet Movement, inspired by Gülen, has established hundreds of education and dialogue institutions throughout the world. Several books and hundreds of articles and news reports have been written about Gülen himself and the movement. In recent years, a defamation campaign has been launched against Gülen and the Hizmet Movement. Although these defamation articles may seem random, this book shows that the articles are written strategically in a campaign manner. In Strategic Defamation of Fethullah Gülen, close to 500 defamation articles, books, and other forms of writings are analyzed according to their languages by Dogan Koc. Dr. Koc concludes that these defamations differ from each other and appear according to their respective audiences.

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