Turkish intelligence and national police all investigated ‘Tahşiyeciler'
Zaman newspaper’s editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı and Samanyolu Broadcast Group President were amongst members of the press detained on Dec 14, 2014 for allegedly defaming a suspected al-Qaeda affiliated...
View ArticleUS professor urges Washington not to extradite Gülen to Turkey
An American professor from the Columbia University has urged Washington not to extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to Turkey, noting that attacks on Gülen are part of a pattern to silence...
View ArticleALDE President Watson outlines alarming trend of Turkish gov’t policies
Graham Watson, the president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party in Europe voices outrage at the violations of separation of powers, journalist detainments in a worrisome...
View ArticleEP political groups urge Turkey to release journalists
The main political groups in the European Parliament (EP) have called on the Turkish government to release journalists ahead of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's visit to Brussels on Jan. 15, when the...
View ArticleMembers of press unite to stand against persecution by AK Party
Intellectuals agree that the time has come to work together for freedom of the press, regardless of the past, in a conference held in partnership with the İstanbul Institute and the Pak Media Workers...
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Hizmet-affiliated educational institutions succeed in TEOG exam
The results of the Transition from Primary to Secondary Education (TEOG) exam that was administered on Nov. 26-27 and Dec. 13-14 to eighth graders across Turkey show that students who prepared for the...
View ArticleEP condemns media crackdown in name of rule of law, press freedom
The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the Turkish government's attempt to silence critical media by launching raids on media institutions and detaining journalists on Dec.14, saying the steps...
View ArticleRicciardone: Hizmet members not terrorists
Former US Ambassador to Turkey Frank Ricciardone has said that the US government does not regard members of faith-based Hizmet movement as terrorists. Speaking at a forum in Washington, D.C., on...
View ArticleGülen condemns Paris shootings, says all forms of terror deplorable
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has strongly condemned an attack on a French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and a series of shootings in Paris suburbs last week that left 17 dead, extending...
View ArticleDetention of journalists increases concerns over press freedoms, says report
The December report of the Press for Freedom Project (PfF), released on Saturday, states that concerns about the state of press freedoms in Turkey increased in the last month of 2014, as operations...
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O.C. Muslim leaders speak out against extremism
Along with the lives they destroy and extinguish, terrorists who commit these heinous acts in the name of Islam also hurt the global community of Muslims, a majority of whom lead peaceful, productive...
View ArticleDocuments expose plot to hold Hizmet responsible for KPSS cheating
The Zaman daily has published documents which reveal that a plot was devised to unjustly hold the members of the Hizmet Movement responsible for a cheating scandal at the State Personnel Examination...
View ArticleErdoğan government opposes democratic values: detained Turkish journalist
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is falsely accusing anybody that opposes it of treason, a prominent Turkish journalist currently detained in an Istanbul prison told Asharq...
View ArticleUS voices concern about press freedom over Karaca’s arrest
The United States has expressed concern about press freedom in Turkey in regards to the Samanyolu TV network's top executive, Hidayet Karaca, being arrested after a media crackdown on Dec. 14, saying...
View ArticleGülen calls for respect for the sacred, denounces terrorism
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has called on everyone to respect sacred values of each other while at the same time strongly condemning resorting to violence terrorism in so-called attempts...
View ArticleErdoğan’s harsh, xenophobic rhetoric damages fight against Islamophobia
The increasingly punitive and xenophobic discourse adopted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in recent years has done a huge disservice to the fight against Islamophobia, dealing a blow to the...
View ArticleAnatomy of a conspiracy
Bülent Keneş The conspiracy was first announced by a government whistleblower who writes under the pseudonym Fuat Avni (@fuatavnifuat). Then, the Zaman newspaper covered it with evidence it in its...
View ArticleJournalist reveals inspiring story of Turkish schools in book
Ankara-based journalist Mesut Çevikalp has written a book about the little-known stories of Turkish schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs in various parts of the world, including the moving and...
View ArticleDocuments expose new plot to frame Hizmet for exam cheating
Documents obtained by Today's Zaman regarding a 2010 cheating scandal surrounding the State Personnel Examination (KPSS) have revealed a plot to unjustly frame members of the Hizmet movement. The plot...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen’s lawyer appeals arrest warrant
Nurullah Albayrak, the lawyer of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, has appealed the decision of the İstanbul 1st Penal Court of Peace to issue an arrest warrant for Gülen, citing illegality. In his 13...
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