’Arrest warrant for Gülen to damage Turkey’s reputation in the world’
Alliance for Shared Values, a non-profit group that serves as a voice for dialogue organizations affiliated with the Hizmet in the US has released a press statement about an arrest warrant issued by a...
View ArticleGov’t raids imperil Turkey’s vibrant TV industry
The detainment of media personnel, including journalists and even screenwriters, on charges of attempting to overthrow the Turkish government by broadcasting soap operas and publishing news articles...
View ArticleAK Party’s media crackdown exacerbates Turkey’s isolation
As a NATO ally which professes to share NATO's core principles about democracy, human rights and press freedom and as a candidate country for European Union membership, the Turkish government's recent...
View Article‘Reasonable suspicion’ paves way for crackdown on media
The recent detainment of managers from two of Turkey's leading media outlets following the enactment of a law that allows the judiciary to issue arrest warrants based only on “reasonable suspicion” of...
View ArticleThe new Turkey: tyranny and oppression
Amanda Paul Today, the words dictatorship and authoritarian rule are becoming increasingly popular both inside and outside Turkey when referring to its leadership. Why has this happened? The answer is...
View ArticleEmbattled Turkish cleric's influence felt in Tulsa
Fethullah Gulen is not exactly a household name in Tulsa. But the influence of the Turkish Muslim cleric — who is living in self-imposed exile in the United States — is felt here and in cities around...
View ArticleBigger picture
Bülent Keneş Turkey is moving headlong towards disaster. Having turned into a full-fledged dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken under his control not only the fundaments of democracy such as the...
View ArticleTurkey’s structural democratic deficit
Ömer Taşpınar In times like this, when there is a growing sense of despair about the future of liberal democracy in Turkey, it is important to take a long-term view and calmly reflect on how the...
View ArticleWho is Fethullah Gülen?
Şahin Alpay The leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, rightly called it “a coup against democracy” when Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı and STV network...
View Article‘Arrest warrant’ issued for Gülen under article cancelled in 2012
Nurullah Albayrak, the lawyer of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, expressed the “arrest warrant” issued for Gülen under Turkish Penal Code (TCK) Article, was cancelled by the Constitutional Court (AYM)...
View ArticleArrest warrant insufficient to extradite Gülen as int’l law calls for solid...
A court has issued an arrest warrant for Fethullah Gülen and requested that the scholar be extradited from the United States, which is seen as a step towards an Interpol Red Notice and ultimately...
View ArticleExtradition request for Gülen 'legally baseless'
The lawyer of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen made a statement on Monday about the “arrest warrant” issued by a Turkish court for Gülen, saying that extradition request has no legal bases....
View ArticleRed notice for Gülen would allow world to learn of Turkey’s judicial disgrace
Ahmet Gündel* As part of an investigation launched on Dec. 14 by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office against figures affiliated with the faith-based Hizmet movement, the prosecutor in...
View ArticleDestici: Silencing free media means silencing opposition
Grand Unity Party (BBP) leader Mustafa Destici highlighted the threat opposition parties face when freedom of the press is silenced, during his visit to Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı on Sunday....
View ArticleThreat to media
Nazlı Ilıcak To save himself, after police operations into corruption that were revealed on Dec. 17 and 25 of last year President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided to target the Gülen movement. In other...
View ArticleThe road to North Korea
Adem Yavuz Arslan Everybody knows what is going on. Scrambling to cover up the scandal revealed by the December 17-25 graft probe, Erdoğan called for the December 14 media coup. Based on a TV series...
View ArticleCrackdown on Turkish media protested around the world
The Turkish government's recent crackdown on media targeting critical journalists has been met by a number of protests outside the country. Hundreds of Turkish-Americans gathered at the UN building in...
View ArticleHRW: Karaca’s arrest harms media freedom, Turkey’s reputation
International advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) senior Turkey researcher Emma Sinclair-Webb has said the HRW is concerned about the recent arrest of Hidayet Karaca, the general manager of...
View ArticleUS congressmen write to Obama, criticize media crackdown in Turkey
A number of members of the US Congress have condemned the Turkish government's crackdown on the media by sending letters to US President Barack Obama to express their disapproval of Turkey's shift to...
View ArticleBrave New Turkey
Andrew Finkel Freedom House, the democracy watchdog, earlier this year downgraded the Turkish press from being “partly free” to “not free.” Now it may have to create a new category: “not free at all.”...
View Article