Pro-government media vindicates ISIL member
Emre Uslu The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has taken its fight against the Gülen movement, inspired by Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, to the next level. So far, the government and...
View ArticleAccusing the Hizmet Movement of terror while backing al-Qaeda linked groups
Erhan Başyurt The Dec. 14 operation is a blow inflicted on media freedom, law and our democracy. At the same time, it is an operation that is meant to ruin Turkey’s international credibility and...
View ArticleWho is a terrorist?
Ekrem Dumanlı The world was redesigned after the Sept. 11 attacks. Thousands of people died in the terror attack in New York, and all the Muslims in the world were held responsible; Islam was...
View Article[News Analysis] Recent series of legal changes prove a plot against journalists
Hanım Büşra Erdal The Dec. 14 police operation targeting the media, one of the most significant attacks on the Turkish media, had long been planned given the developments in recent years and the...
View ArticleThe case of jailed journalist Hidayet Karaca
Abdullah Bozkurt The jailing of Turkey's top national TV network manager using trumped-up and abusive anti-terror charges because his station aired a popular fictional TV series that delegitimized...
View ArticleMeaning and consequences of Dec. 14 operation
Cafer Solgun The Dec. 17 operation clearly indicates where the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has taken Turkey so far. (1) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling party have invented...
View ArticleGülen says abusive language to cover up sins is hypocrisy
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has strongly criticized abusive language and remarks within pro-government circles insulting members of the Hizmet movement, saying this kind of behavior is...
View ArticleZaman Editorial Board: No retreat from democracy
The Zaman daily, whose Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı was detained and then released as part of a government-backed police operation against the Turkish media and several police officers on Dec. 14, has...
View ArticleThe news media crackdown in Turkey threatens democracy
The Washington Post Editorial Board AUTOCRATS OFTEN feel compelled to invent pretexts, no matter how unconvincing, for crushing their opponents. In the latest round of attacks on the news media in...
View Article'Hizmet Movement and Fethullah Gulen inspire uniting people around spiritual...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 23 (Full text) My name is Dr. Gerald Grudzen. I live here in San Jose; I’ve lived here for over 30 years now and I teach at San Jose City College and Gavilan College and online...
View ArticleGülen says arms, swords have no place in Hizmet’s philosophy
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has stressed that the idea of pursuing an armed struggle has never had a place in the philosophy of the Hizmet movement. In a speech broadcast on the herkul.org...
View ArticleObservers: Charging Zaman EIC based on 2 columns, 1 report is ‘unlawful...
Charging Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı for a crime based on two columns and one report published in his paper is “unlawful nonsense,” according to intellectuals and politicians observing...
View ArticleThis burden is too much for Turkey
Cafer Solgun Nothing would attest more clearly and strikingly to the country President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are dreaming of establishing than Hidayet...
View ArticleExtradition not so easy
Günal Kurşun President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan previously praised Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. For more than 20 years, or since the very beginning of his political career, Erdoğan always had good...
View ArticleJournalist platform’s dialogue center evacuated by municipal police
Municipal police evacuated a dialogue center belonging to the Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, on Friday morning, an act...
View ArticleMedia freedom in tatters with gov’t control of most outlets
2014 is a year which has revealed something which was already clear for those in the media who do not act like government mouthpieces: That the government in Turkey has many media outlets under its...
View ArticleZaman Editor-in-Chief Dumanlı urges support for media freedom in letter
Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of the Zaman newspaper, Turkey's most-circulated daily, has written a letter to leading politicians, businessmen and media organizations in Turkey and in the world,...
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Prominent theologian says Turkey in crisis with international community
American Professor Philip Clayton has said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's burning of bridges with the European Union after he received criticism from the bloc for detaining leading members of the...
View ArticleGov’t tries to frame Hizmet with secret statements from shady sources
The alleged government-plot against members of the faith-based Hizmet movement, disclosed in June by former Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin, was further instigated with questionable testimonies...
View ArticleTurkey’s descent into the abyss
Abdullah Bozkurt It must be crystal clear by now that political Islamist zealots, led by the divider-in-chief Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will do anything and everything to stay in power, even if that means...
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