Freedom House slams Erdoğan’s anti-free press stance
The heads of the US-based watchdog Freedom House have expressed concern over the state of freedom of the press in Turkey, criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's role in wiping out dissident...
View ArticleMinistry imposing bans against Zaman, Cihan defends press freedom in Crimea
The Turkish Foreign Ministry, which has been criticized for the media accreditation bans it has imposed against reporters from the Zaman and Cihan news outlets, has defended press freedom in the...
View ArticleTurkish schools and the race in philanthropy!
Erhan Başyurt The government is in a strange effort to close down Turkish schools abroad. Some time ago they announced a determination to block any activity and got in the way of the Turkish Olympiad....
View ArticleVolunteer teachers saddened by efforts to close Turkish schools
Volunteers teachers, most of whom left behind a better life in Turkey with the hope of promoting universal values of peace, dialogue and peaceful coexistence with others through education at Turkish...
View ArticleReactions snowball against attempts to close down int’l Turkish schools
Efforts by the Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to close down Turkish schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement (also called the Hizmet...
View ArticleErdoğan’s African mission and dismantling Turkish schools
Anwar Alam* How do Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's repeated calls for the closure of Turkish schools located on the African continent, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, serve Turkish national interests? It...
View ArticleUN takes up rights abuses by Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey's deplorable human rights record, particularly regarding the terrible situation of press freedoms and a partisan judiciary, was registered at the highest level this week when...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch slams Turkish government for "authoritarian drift"
“Victory at the polls is no excuse for the Turkish government and President Erdoğan to roll back the reforms of the past decade and erode the institutions that make Turkey a democracy.” This statement...
View ArticleGülen has strongly rejected comparison to Iran's Khomeini time and again
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ's recently rehashed allegations that Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen planned to return from the US to Turkey in a way similar to Iran's revolutionary leader...
View ArticleForeign students express bewilderment over gov’t bid to close Turkish schools
Foreign students who are graduates of schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs affiliated with the Gülen movement (also called the Hizmet movement) all around the world, have expressed bewilderment over...
View ArticleUS assures private schools are under legal protection against closure
Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) Executive Director Mark Gibb has said no one, not even President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has the authority to close down Turkish schools in the US in response...
View ArticleThat Erdogan’s War With Education In Africa
Vincent Kanayo I was shocked last Thursday when I heard that the President Erdogan, was in Ethiopia to demand that his counterpart in that country should close Turkish schools. The schools, it would...
View ArticleErdoğan’s fight against education in Africa
İhsan Yılmaz Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited a few African nations, among them Somalia and Ethiopia. When looking at his media mouthpieces' coverage of the trip and his...
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Malian first lady commends local Turkish schools
Mali’s first lady Aminata Keita recently received a delegation from the local Horizon Turkish School, Mali Time to Help Foundation and Galaxy Dialogue and Cultural Center, at the presidential palace....
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu volunteers help restore eyesight to African cataract patients
Volunteers of Kimse Yok Mu Foundation’s (KYM) Konya chapter offered hope to some 150 cataract patients across the African continent, through their donations. KYM Konya chapter earlier rolled up the...
View ArticleCritics labeled traitors in Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey’
Almost no day passes in the “New Turkey” without individuals, organizations or groups that criticize the policies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and its former leader...
View ArticleEFJ representative visits Zaman, says journalists not arrested in democratic...
Barry White, the Britain-based National Union of Journalists (NUJ) representative of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), recently visited the headquarters of the Zaman daily -- which was...
View ArticleMeasures against Turkish schools worse than the 90s postmodern coup
The former Welfare Party delegate Gürcan Dağdaş calls the President Erdoğan-backed Ministry of Education's plan to close Turkish schools “a laughable attempt that lacks soul." President Recep Erdoğan...
View ArticleErdoğan’s baseless claim of Mossad-Gülen ties draws ire
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's accusation that the Gülen movement is cooperating with Israel's intelligence agency without providing any evidence is yet another example of his feeling free to slander...
View ArticleEducation Minister Avcı: the most unfortunate member of the Cabinet
Ali Aslan Kılıç The graft and bribery scandal that went public on Dec. 17, 2013 continues to undermine the prestige of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). It is true that a judicial...
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