Details of the witch hunt
Ali Yurttagül The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has now lost control of everything. Let as look at what government spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç says: “We have studied the...
View ArticleWho will put an end to Erdoğan’s power?
Mümtazer Türköne The only realistic and plausible answer to this question is: It is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who will put an end to his own power. Byzantine palace intrigues, unlawfulness,...
View ArticleTurkish Bar Association President the latest to slam Bank Asya overhaul
Turkish Bar Association (TBB) President Metin Feyzioğlu outlines the illegality of the management overhaul of Bank Asya, renewing his criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. From the 2014...
View Article‘New Turkey’ placing free market and property rights under threat
Tuesday's raid on the headquarters of a publicly traded lender has sparked widespread reactions from a number of prominent experts, who have all voiced their concerns over the free market economy and...
View ArticleBank Asya: The tyranny of arbitrariness or confiscation from Ottomans to Turkey
Murat Aksoy* Bank Asya -- which has never experienced a significant problem since it was founded 20 years ago, despite serious problems in the banking sector -- is now in the spotlight and being...
View ArticleSecurity of life and property in the ‘New Turkey’
Bülent Keneş The final situation of Turkey under the government mafia of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which are knee-deep in crimes and sins,...
View ArticleClear intervention in judiciary
Günal Kurşun The arbitrary actions and operations of the administration have been systematic and widespread over the last two years in Turkey. Though we saw and criticized this arbitrariness in the...
View ArticlePresident’s suggestion that Bank Asya bankrupt denied by BDDK
Ali Aslan Kılıç An important reservation is being made to a strong statement on the history of banking that is in economy textbooks used in colleges. Anywhere in the world, speculation about banks...
View ArticleAward-winning US screenwriter: Without freedom of speech and media, we’re all...
Terry Spencer Hesser, director of the first feature-length movie about Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet movement, a grassroots initiative inspired by the Islamic scholar, spoke to Sunday's Zaman at the...
View ArticleGülen, followers targeted after scholar’s New York Times article
The pro-government media, the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continue to perpetuate an ongoing defamation and smear campaign against Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and the...
View Article'Erdoğan's Stance Against Africa Similar To Colonial States'
Jean Paul Kouo, the deputy education minister of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, has responded to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish authorities, saying their stance against African countries is...
View ArticleGov’t’s pressure for closure of Turkish schools abroad yields no result
The movement that started out a quarter-century ago to support education for children abroad starting with the autonomous Azerbaijani republic of Nakhchivan has now reached 160 foreign countries, with...
View ArticleIs Erdoğan’s ‘taka’ headed for the cliffs?
Emre Deliveli Not according to credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s. In a note released on Feb. 6, S and P said the “banking regulator’s (BDDK) decision to transfer the management of Bank Asya to...
View ArticleCHP visits journalist under arrest since Dec. 14 media crackdown
A delegation from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has visited Samanyolu TV Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca, who has been under arrest since a government-backed police operation...
View ArticleArrested journalist Hidayet Karaca’s letter published in Le Monde
Arrested journalist Hidayet Karaca's letter detailing the threats that the media in Turkey face was published by Le Monde, one of the leading newspapers in France, on Monday. Karaca, the chairman of...
View Article‘Efforts to sink a bank tantamount to treason’
As reactions to last week's legally flawed intervention in Bank Asya continue to pour in, outspoken critics of the intervention leveled harsh criticisms against the government on Monday. A...
View ArticleConfiscation
Ali Bulaç Last week, the management of Bank Asya, one of the strongest financial institutions in Turkey in terms of capital sufficiency, was confiscated. Of course, the confiscation is related to...
View Article‘Bank Asya intervention a veiled threat to gov’t critics’
Last week's midnight police raid on Turkey's largest Islamic bank, followed by a legally flawed intervention in the bank's board, is part of a covert war that the government is waging against its...
View ArticleRemoving the barrier on the way to an autocratic state
Sami Karahan* The whole Bank Asya operation is just the continuation of plans that started in 2006. These are plans that aim to make Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule permanent and have led to...
View ArticleThree major contradictions in the Bank Asya operation
Uğur Gürses Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) decided late Feb. 3 that 63 percent of the privileged shares that make up the executive board of Bank Asya should be controlled by the...
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