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.....has the notoriority of being the relentless defenders of radical Islam in Turkey. (quoting Vineyards).
Can someone explain this? I bookmarked Zaman as one of three online Turkish newspapers in English (the others are Turkish Press and Hürriyet) and I never found it that much defending radical Islam. In fact, I sometimes wondered about the controversial topics they have published, quite critical to government and other leaders.
I think you should decide thi for yourself. Surely, everyone may trust on the ideas of their friends and you may trust here whatever is said. But I don´t think these all are true in anyway. I don´t believe that gossip "taquiyye" or anything else. Zaman´s origin is religion but there is no "radical" belief or defence I think. People are changing. So they are changing as well. They are just representing what their culture and believes requires for them.
I can say this, a very simple idea: Islam says if you are ill, sea a the doctor. So there must be doctors in the world, and that is pretty normal that a muslim person wish a better doctor. As everyone may have passions, a muslim person can be a doctor. or a scientist or even a boss which is an ideal person. So they are trying to be best. And what is wrng with that? If you have a newspaper, that is pretty normal that you have a wish and passion about being better at preparing news papers. Zaman paid a very big attention to the design first a few years ago, and now there are lots of awards given to the design of the newspaper.
They said "we want to be more objective, not judging those who don´t think like us." now they are trying to do that, even though many people don´t think Zaman is an objective newspaper, they are trying and I am sure everyone sees the change. Now people like we see, like vineyards of si++ just saying that they have a secret plan or something else because they don´t have any other proof or another thing to talk about them.
Fethullah Gülen is a religious leader for some people, ok. But that doesn´t mean everything he says have something religious. And that is also not a bad thing to be a good person if he does it only because his religioun orders this. For that reason, any sheik story doesn´t make sense to me. "Reading minds" is a very common and famous habit in Turkey, but sometimes we have to look at what have been done, and the results of them.
Zaman is a newspaper that care the religion, but their line is not radical. That is a prejudgement.
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