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Hidayet Karaca, banditry and Turkey’s eroding image
Bülent Keneş Corrupt politicians who target innocent people for certain political reasons or in an effort to cover up their terrifying crimes will have to violate laws and commit more crimes and engage...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth to Power in Turkey: An Interview with Ekrem Dumanli
Yohuru Williams Last December, veteran Turkish journalist, newspaper executive and playwright Ekrem Dumanli made headlines after he was detained by Turkish authorities on charges of "forming, leading...
View ArticlePro-government press to face legal challenge over slander and lies
Lawyers of Islamic Scholar Fethullah Gülen released a statement in response to the defamatory pro-government media accusations that Gülen held sex tapes of Republican People’s Party (CHP) delegates,...
View ArticleDespite readily using term, AK Party rejects proposal to investigate...
A parliamentary group proposal made by the opposition to investigate claims of the existence of a so-called parallel structure was rejected by the government on Tuesday, prompting criticism of Justice...
View ArticleContext, fact and law: demystifying the Bank Asya takeover
Taptuk Emre Erkoç*What happened at Bank Asya? Bank Asya is Turkey's largest Islamic lender bank, with 201 branches in Turkey, and trades on the İstanbul stock exchange. On the authority of the Banking...
View ArticleISPO becomes Turkish schools’ success story in Indonesia
The seventh Indonesian Science Project Olympiad (ISPO), organized in Indonesia under the direction of Turkish schools, chose its first four successful participants on Wednesday. One of the greatest...
View ArticleCivil Islam and Democratic Modernity in Gülen’s thought
Uğur Kömeçoğlu Throughout Gülen’s teaching, one can see an abiding concern with fostering a communitarian ethos that aims to improve modern society through the revitalization of Islamic spiritualism,...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu continues its assistance to Cambodia
Highly acclaimed for its aid efforts globally, Kimse Yok Mu Foundation recently made another five water wells available to the needy locals in Cambodia where it had previously provided 40 of them. In...
View ArticleTMSF refuses to relinquish management control of Bank Asya
In spite of the fact that more than 60 percent of Bank Asya's A-type shareholders have submitted the documents requested by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) that were the basis for...
View Article'Parallel state' hunt makes McCarthyism look like child’s play
Orhan Kemal Cengiz For the last year not a single day has passed without hearing these infamous words: parallel state. These were present in almost every speech made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan....
View ArticleSacrificing Sümeyye Erdoğan
İhsan Yılmaz Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seems to be so desperate that he is using his own daughter's name in a terrible, horrendous and monstrous psychological campaign by possibly risking her life. He is...
View ArticleMunicipality shuts down three reading halls in Adıyaman
Adıyaman Municipality has reportedly closed down three reading halls established to help educate the children of needy and poor families, using scores of police vehicles. The reading halls were set up...
View ArticleThey’re jealous of Erdoğan
Abdülhamit Bilici When I saw the headlines in the pro-government media about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's declaration – en route from Cuba – that he didn't “care about Turkey's isolation within the...
View ArticleErdoğan, his allies plot against CHP, Gülen to score political gains
As President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his allies in the government feel the pressure of the upcoming general elections in June, fabricated news stories about the main opposition party and Fethullah...
View ArticleWhat is behind conspiracy targeting CHP and Gülen?
Week-long conspiracy-oriented publications by pro-government media in Turkey that are apparently based on fabricated Twitter conversations aim to smear both the main opposition Republican People's...
View ArticleGülen’s lawyer denies allegation of plot against Erdoğan’s daughter, calls it...
A lawyer for Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen categorically denied claims by pro-government newspapers that Gülen ordered the assassination of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's daughter, Sümeyye Erdoğan,...
View ArticleDoes The Hizmet movement conduct self-criticism?
Mustafa Yeşil*Principles, values and goals The Hizmet movement is a social movement and a civil society initiative that emerged to develop projects by voluntary participants in order to advance peace...
View ArticleGulen`s Interview with the German Newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung
Interview with German Newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung ‘Charge of the Preacher’, dated 13th December 2014 Interviewers: Tim Neshitov and Christiane Schlötzer The Turkish government demands your...
View ArticleAKP’s situation is so bad that it needs medical treatment
Emre Uslu The pro-government media outlets continue to serve up nonsensical headlines. And their latest headline is perfectly ridiculous. They say that I will arrange the assassination of Sümeyye...
View ArticleHot meals for 3 million Syrians from Kimse Yok Mu
The humanitarian aid group Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) has been providing help to Syrians who fled the civil war in their country and taken shelter in the southeastern province of Kilis. The group,...
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