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Washington leg of int’l language and culture festival held with great attendance
Cheers and laughter dominated Washington's landmark Warner Theater on Tuesday as dozens of talented international students delighted guests with songs and dances, highlighting diversity with their...
View ArticleNepalese surprised at Turkish teachers staying to help after earthquake
A group of Nepalese people, who were offered shelter at Meridian Turkish schools in the country after last Saturday's devastating earthquake in the country, said on Wednesday that they were surprised...
View ArticleWatchdog fails to explain continued Bank Asya intervention
A recent takeover of the control of shares in Turkey's largest Islamic lender Bank Asya was a temporary, preventive measure and “not meant to hurt the bank,” Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision...
View ArticleAK Party government intensifies pressure on CSOs by criminalizing them
Teams from the Manisa Police Department's anti-terrorism unit conducted simultaneous raids on five civil society organization (CSOs) in the western province of Manisa early on Thursday in the latest of...
View ArticleIn dubious battle
İbrahim Türkmen The usurping of managerial rights of the majority of Bank Asya's privileged shareholders by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) is a subject I visit quite often because...
View ArticleDetention orders issued for judges who ruled for release of journalist,...
Detention orders were issued on Thursday for two judges who ruled for the release of journalist Hidayet Karaca and 63 police officials who have been kept in pre-trial detention for months. Some reports...
View ArticleTurkey and the sado-fascist spirit
Bülent Keneş Many people have long been noting that what President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's one-man rule and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are doing cannot be properly assessed or...
View ArticleThreat to destroy the Hizmet Movement a hate crime
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's statements targeting the Hizmet movement saying “either they will accept the presence of this state or they will disappear” is a clear hate crime, prosecutable...
View ArticleTurkish school shelters mountaineer in Nepal
Ufuk Yünlü, a Turkish mountaineer who was caught on Mount Everest at an altitude of 5,100 meters during last Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal, has been offered shelter at Turkish Meridian...
View ArticleWhy Kimse Yok Mu probe may affect education in Nigeria
To some, the name Kimse Yok Mu might not ring a bell in Nigeria, but to those that follow this secular charity organization, especially its scholarship program in Nigeria that has made it possible...
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'Accusing Kimse Yok Mu of terror endangers Kyrgyz orphans'
Rüstem Atayev, the principal of the Togolok Moldo Orphans' School in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bişkek, has said that the Turkish government accusing the Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu of terrorism activities...
View ArticleDemocracy hits rock bottom in a Turkey without press freedom
While the rest of the world marks this year's World Press Freedom Day on May 3, journalists in Turkey are facing the most severe forms of repression: a number of them are either in jail, losing their...
View ArticleTurkish judges who ruled for the release of Karaca arrested
An Istanbul court arrested two judges who ruled for the release of journalist Hidayet Karaca and some police officials, who have been kept in pre-trial detention for months. Istanbul 29th Court of...
View ArticlePoliticians, legal experts condemn raids against CSOs in Manisa
Politicians and legal experts have criticized the raids on five civil society organizations (CSO) in the western province of Manisa claimed to be affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement, also...
View ArticleGülen’s lawyers: PM’s only correct statement is that he visited Gülen
Lawyers representing Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen dismissed on Friday remarks made by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that Gülen rejected an invitation from Davutoğlu to return to Turkey on...
View ArticleTurkish PM Davutoğlu’s claims denied by ex-president Gül and Gülen
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who claimed to have visited Fethullah Gülen in 2013 with confirmation from President Gül, to convince the Islamic preacher return to Turkey, has been denounced...
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Kimse Yok Mu trains flood victim Pakistani women for a job
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation (KYM) continues to heal the wounds after the devastating flood in 2010 in Pakistan. The foundation earlier built the Ikbaliye town home to 296 families in the city of...
View ArticleMHP parliamentarian slams witch hunts against NGOs
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) parliamentarian Ahmet Kenan Tanrıkulu criticized the Manisa province police chief over the recent raids against five separate non-profits on Thursday. Visiting İpek...
View Article4 Turkish charity organizations on OCHA’s Nepal list
Four Turkish humanitarian aid organizations including Kimse Yok Mu, the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD), the Turkish Search and Rescue Team (AKUT) and GEA (Mother...
View ArticleFormer ECtHR judge Türmen: Journalist, police officers should have been released
This week's guest for Monday Talk has emphasized that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) grip on the judiciary has become so obvious that the ruling party has its own rule of law....
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