A U.S. court has ruled that the Bush administration improperly rejected a prominent Turkish religious leader’s application toward permanent residence in the United States and ordered the government to reverse the decision.

A hitherto largely unknown Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, has been voted the world's top intellectual in a poll to find the leading 100 thinkers.

For the past week I’ve been traveling around Turkey with eight other Hoosiers on a trip sponsored by the Indianapolis-based Holy Dove Foundation. Our group from Indianapolis is diverse: Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Jewish, Caucasian and African-American. For all of us, this is our first trip to Turkey.

Praying in Pakistan has not been easy for Mesut Kacmaz, a Muslim teacher from Turkey.

He tried the mosque near his house, but it had Israeli and Danish flags painted on the floor for people to step on. The mosque near where he works warned him never to return wearing a tie. Pakistanis everywhere assume he is not Muslim because he has no beard.