Moral damage
Ali Bulaç Turkey has been experiencing shockwaves from the debate over the graft and bribery investigation and coup charges. Every incident leaves some residue in us. This residue may be negative or...
View ArticleTurkish school students raises pocket moneys to buy stoves for refugees
Students of Hizmet Movement affiliated Turkish school in eastern Iraqi city of Kirkuk gathered their pocket moneys to buy stoves for refugees who live in poor shelters and suffer from cold weather...
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Persecution of Hizmet movement in Turkey
İhsan Yılmaz“The Persecution of the Hizmet (Gülen) Movement in Turkey: A Chronicle” is the title of a paper published by the Rethink Institute, a Washington-based think tank, in December. The chronicle...
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AK Party’s persecution of Hizmet movement exposed in chronicle
The Rethink Institute has published a chronicle of acts committed against Turkey's faith-based Hizmet movement at the hands of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) over the last two years,...
View ArticleFuat Avni: Some 150 Hizmet-affiliated journalists to be detained
A Twitter user known by the pseudonym Fuat Avni, who has revealed many government-backed police operations to the public, has claimed that about 150 journalists affiliated with the Hizmet movement will...
View ArticleGYV harshly denies PM’s allegation that Hizmet, PKK working together
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) strongly criticized and denied recent remarks from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who alleged that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the so-called...
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Hundreds on vigil outside Zaman building to protest possible raid
Hundreds of readers thronged outside the headquarters of Feza Media Holding to protest a possible operation against journalists, most of them from Zaman daily, defying what they claim to be the...
View ArticleJournalists and Writers Foundation's statement on recent developments
The developments of the last year have made it crystal clear that the government is exerting great efforts to change the agenda that is unfavorable to it and doing everything to achieve this. In this...
View ArticleAcademic Thought Platform holds first of its 'Capital Gatherings'
The Journalists and Writers Foundation's (GYV) Academic Thought Platform (ADP) came up with a remarkable program amid the ongoing heated debate over the use of the state authority and the relationship...
View ArticleOpposition slams mass detention claims in name of democracy, freedoms
Opposition party leaders and deputies have raised their voices in protest of claims suggesting 150 journalists affiliated with the Hizmet movement will be detained as part of a wide-scale operation,...
View ArticleWorld media covers possible anti-journalist ops; Turkish press silent
Some foreign news outlets have been covering a whistleblower's claim that around 150 journalists will be detained as part of a new government-backed operation, but most Turkish media outlets have...
View ArticleZaman journalists defy threat of arrest with heads held high
Scattered across a newsroom producing Turkey's largest-circulating newspaper, the Zaman daily, journalists from the Feza Media Group remain confident while waiting for police officers to come and...
View ArticleGülen says talk of raid against Zaman aims to intimidate
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in self-exile in Pennsylvania, said on Thursday that the rumors of a crackdown against Hizmet movement-affiliated media is a “perception operation and aims to...
View ArticleThe parody of dictatorship and silence
Orhan Kemal Cengiz It is as if we are watching a parody of dictatorship. Either the dictator of this game will show a pathetic indulgence while trying to satisfy his ambitions, or, as we know from the...
View ArticleWhistleblower says anti-journalist gov’t operation to kick off Sunday
A Twitter user known by the pseudonym Fuat Avni, who has revealed many government-backed police operations to the public, has claimed that a major government-backed police operation targeting many...
View ArticleThousands keep ‘Justice Watch’ for journalists in İstanbul
On Thursday "Fuat Avni," a whistleblower who says he is among President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inner circle, claimed that the dozens of journalists will be detained in simultaneous police raids to be...
View ArticleI refuse to be intimidated
Abdullah Bozkurt Against the background of shocking revelations by the anonymous whistleblower Fuat Avni in which he claimed the government would round up some 150 independent and critical journalists...
View ArticleMedia representatives slam claim of raid on 150 journalists
The allegation by a whistleblower, who says he is among President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inner circle, that about 150 journalists affiliated with the Hizmet movement will be detained as part of a new...
View ArticleClaim of journalists to be detained en masse draws harsh response
A claim of a soon-to-be-unveiled mass detention of journalists in Turkey as part of government efforts to muzzle the remaining free, independent and critical media outlets has prompted a huge outcry in...
View ArticleGülen’s lawyers slam Erdoğan’s ‘slanderous’ unsolved murders remarks
The lawyers of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have denounced recent statements by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he held the Hizmet movement responsible for some unsolved murders in...
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