MİLAD Co-Chairman says Oppression of Hizmet Members Akin to Genocide
Co-chairperson of the Party of Nation and Justice (MİLAD) Mehmet Bozdemir has said the government's crackdown on the followers of the Gülen movement, also known as the Hizmet movement, is tantamount to...
View ArticleGülen’s lawyer: Targeting overseas Turkish educators breaks law
Nurullah Albayrak, the legal representative of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, in a written statement on Wednesday spoke out against a front-page story in the pro-government Star daily that...
View ArticleThree political risks that Turkey might be exposed to
Emre Uslu Economic indicators in Turkey cannot bear the political risk anymore. The currency rates go up whenever President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan makes a statement. Before the elections I had warned...
View ArticleTurkish ruling party’s targeting of the Gülen movement constitutes a crime...
Sami Karahan* Members of the Gülen movement, also known as the Hizmet movement, have systematically and for many years now, had secret files kept on them. They have also been followed, fired from their...
View ArticleIndictment against agencies responsible for taking over Bank Asya
A criminal charge for ‘qualified robbery’ has been filed against the TMSF and BDDK management by one of Bank Asya’s senior partners. Forum İnşaat Dekorasyon Turizm A.Ş., a senior partner of Bank Asya,...
View ArticleTurkish authorities use charges of terrorism to silence free speech
Journalists in Turkey are being charged with “being involved in terrorist activities” and “endangering state security” to justify the current crackdown on the media, as this is the only legitimate way...
View ArticleFears over Turkey’s G-20 leadership spurred by Bank Asya raid, pressure on...
Turkey has struggled to leave a mark during its first few months of leadership of the Group of 20 (G-20), the world's most economically developed countries, amid midnight police raids on the country's...
View ArticleAK Party’s ’parallel’ election campaign
Mümtazer Türköne In Turkey, the term "pool media" refers to the pro-government media outlets which were created through funds raised by various businessmen to protect the ruling Justice and Development...
View ArticleBank Asya shareholders slam defamatory gov't press reporting
Pro-government media outlets’ defamatory reporting, along with the banking regulator’s politically motivated management takeover of publicly traded participation bank Bank Asya, draws...
View ArticleWatch your mouth
Ekrem DumanlıBe Fair"The Gülen movement is worse than the Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK]," Erdoğan told a group of journalists. This is cruel! “The Gülen movement did greater damage to the country,” he...
View ArticleLaw Prof. Karahan: Hate crimes against Hizmet can be prosecuted at ECtHR, ICC
The Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has taken over management control of some of the privileged shares of Bank Asya as part of a government-operated crackdown on institutions affiliated with the...
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Students of Turkish schools in Romania impress in science competition
Students from Turkish schools in Romania impress in the “First Step” science project competition. A total of 329 have competed in the competition, presenting 245 projects in the categories of energy,...
View ArticleImmanuel Wallerstein and the Hizmet Movement
Gökhan Bacık Immanuel Wallerstein, who is influenced by Marxism, says Europe went through an important stage during “a prolonged period extending roughly from the 1450s into the 1600s”. And what is...
View ArticleSamanyolu slammed with TL 1 million penalty in latest strike
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has levied a nearly TL 1 million penalty on the Samanyolu Broadcasting Group in what Samanyolu executives consider yet another attempt to silence media...
View ArticlePro-gov’t daily brands intellectuals speaking to foreign media as ’traitors’
The pro-government Takvim daily branded Nobel laureate and Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, renowned Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz and Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen "traitors" in its top story on Sunday...
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80 hirelings!
Adem Yavuz Arslan The title is an expression uttered by President Erdoğan. Erdoğan said it during the Mexican leg of the Latin America tour which he embarked on to have Turkish schools closed down and...
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Turkey ostracized: Cues from Latin America
Abdullah Bozkurt Chatterbox President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's radical political beliefs -- deeply rooted in political Islamist ideology and a pro-Iranian perspective -- which have unfortunately...
View ArticleGülen’s lawyer: Pro-government media ignores ruling of Supreme Court of Appeals
Nurullah Albayrak, the lawyer representing Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, said in a written statement on Monday that pro-government media outlets continue their false accusations about Gülen...
View ArticleTurkish school in Uganda challenges discrimination against albinos
A Turkish school established in Uganda has challenged discrimination against albinos in the country by giving an albino student a full scholarship. Albinos suffer from albinism, a congenital disorder...
View ArticleArrested journalist: I am on guard duty for democracy
Samanyolu TV Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca, who has been under arrest since a government-backed police operation against independent media outlets on Dec. 14, 2014, stated in a letter on Monday...
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