It’s not about a conflict between the government and Hizmet movement
Gültekin Avcı Insanity ripples through the country, the media and the people. If graft or corruption is the prevailing form of life spreading from the state to society, and if this form of life is...
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Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 22 (Full text) My name is Alan Jones**. I am a United Methodist pastor and the pastor at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Sacramento, California. We are the third largest...
View ArticleAK Party polarizes Turks in Balkans
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Kocaeli deputy Lütfü Türkkan, noting that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government is pursuing a policy of polarization vis-à-vis Turks and Muslims in...
View ArticleReuters: Turkish police raid media outlets close to Gulen, detain some people
Turkish police raided a television station and a newspaper close to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen on Sunday, detaining some people, media reports said, two days after President Tayyip...
View ArticleWaiting for a police raid to our newspaper…
Sevgi Akarçeşme It is 3.20 a.m. İstanbul time and I am writing this piece to share my impressions from a truly historic night for a journalist. For those of you who have not yet heard, as journalists...
View ArticleTwo Turkish TV producers detained as operation against media starts
Turkish police have reportedly detained two producers from Samanyolu TV in the first wave of what was said to be a large-scale operation against the media across Turkey. Samanyolu TV lawyer Fikret...
View ArticleTurkish police raid Zaman building, attempt to detain editor
Turkey's anti-terrorism units have attempted to raid headquarters of the country's top-selling newspaper Zaman in an early-morning operation, with a goal to detain its editor-in-chief, but had to turn...
View ArticlePolice officers raid Turkish daily’s building only to leave immediately
Police officers on Sunday raided Turkey’s largest circulating newspaper Zaman’s headquarters in İstanbul but had to leave premises due to a lack of signature on warrant witnesses told. Following a long...
View ArticleCHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu: Turkey is going through ‘coup process’
Turkey's main opposition leader has leveled criticisms against the authorities for going after journalists, something "unseen in healthy democracies," and condemned the government for spearheading a...
View ArticleOperations anti-democratic, illegal exclaims newspaper editor in chief
Following the claims that that a major government-backed police operation to detain many journalists will kick off on Sunday, Ekrem Dumanlı, editor in chief of the Turkey’s largest circulated newspaper...
View Article‘Erdogan and people around, not obey the rule of law, respect media’
Following the claims that a major government-backed police operation to detain many journalists will kick off on Sunday, Bülent Keneş of Today’s Zaman, editor in chief for Turkey’s largest circulated...
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Zaman editor-in-chief detained in media operation
Editor-in-chief of Turkey's Zaman daily, critical of the government, was detained on Sunday in a police operation that targeted journalists, TV script writers and former police officers.Editor-in-chief...
View ArticleNews sacred, commentary free
Bülent Keneş I penned this article after hearing a strong rumor that the police would raid my home and take me into custody early on Sunday morning... I would like you to know who Bülent Keneş really...
View ArticleGülen warns of on-going witch hunt
Speaking to the German-language Süddeutsche Zeitung daily, prominent Islamic Preacher Fethullah Gülen criticized government slander and persecution of dissent.“The impression is that Turkey is moving...
View ArticleDetentions of journalists flash news on world media
A compilation of news reports on major media outlets [alphabetical list]:ABC News (via AP): Journalists, Police Are Detained in Turkish RaidsAl-Jazeera: Turkish journalists detained in police raidsBBC...
View ArticleSocial media critical of police raids at Zaman
Social media exploded with criticism of a police operation that took place at the Zaman daily headquarters in İstanbul on Sunday. The editor-in-chief of Turkey's Zaman daily was detained on Sunday in a...
View ArticleBlack Sunday: The day Turkey detained its prominent journalists
The government-orchestrated crackdown on independent critical media outlets in Turkey took a turn for the worse on Sunday with dawn raids on Turkey's largest newspaper Zaman and popular national TV...
View ArticleMedia clampdown foretold
Yavuz Baydar Turkey under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has come much closer to a format of despotism, with police raids targeting mainly the media: the Zaman daily and the STV channel. It...
View ArticleUnite against one-man rule
Şahin Alpay In Turkey, Dec. 17-25 of last year signifies the start of the public revelations of the gravest corruption probe against the government led by former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan....
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Detentions extend to 9 staff members of TV series
Nine individuals, including the producer, director and assistant scriptwriters -- one with a young child -- of Samanyolu TV's once very popular TV series “Tek Türkiye” (One Turkey) were among those...
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