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Albania Ignores Erdogan's Tirade Against Gulen
Albanian officials have made it clear that Albania is not planning to act on demands by Turkey's President for the country to close down the Gulen movement. President Erdogan made his request in...
View ArticleReconsidering Fethullah Gülen - Michael Rubin: 'I may have misread the Gulen...
Michael Rubin Fethullah Gülen, the 74-year-old Turkish Islamic thinker, has long been the subject of controversy in both American and Turkish policy circles. Born in Erzurum, Turkey, he taught and...
View ArticleBDDK chair forgot about his previous statement
Turhan Bozkurt I was not surprised to hear the new chairman of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK), Mehmet Ali Akben, say, “The documents the partners of Bank Asya were asked to submit...
View ArticleBank Asya lawyer: 90 percent of shares must be returned
A total of 90.12 percent of Bank Asya's Group A shares must be returned to shareholders, the bank's lawyer Süleyman Taşbaş said in a statement on Thursday. Taşbaş was responding to a statement from...
View ArticleNew package to introduce economic sanctions on anti-gov’t businesses
The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government, which launched a war against the faith-based Gülen movement, also known as the Hizmet movement, following the publicizing of a graft probe in...
View ArticleWhat a contemporary interpretation of the law!
Günal Kurşun Last Sunday, it was revealed that Ankara Prosecutor Serdar Coşkun from the Bureau of Crimes against Constitutional Order sent a warrant to the general manager of the Turkish Satellite...
View ArticleWhat is ahead for Turkish media?
Orhan Kemal Cengiz There is a strange phenomenon that sometimes affects one's mood in which it's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry. There are so many occasions in Turkey in which I experience...
View Article‘Prosecutor’s attempt to silence critical media an assassination attempt’
A number of civil society groups, media associations and a member of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), the state body responsible for monitoring TV stations, have criticized an Ankara...
View ArticleEP: Turkish prosecutor’s move to silence dissident media very worrisome
The European Parliament's (EP) Turkey rapporteur, Kati Piri, and another EP member have leveled criticism over a Turkish prosecutor's recent request to prohibit media outlets critical of the government...
View ArticleTargeted by Erdoğan, Turkish schools earn praise, offer success abroad
Turkish schools established by educational volunteers affiliated with a movement inspired by teachings of Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen receive widespread praise due to the quality of education they...
View ArticleTurkish military in mood of passive resistance against AK Party gov’t
Lale Kemal Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel has taken 15 days of medical leave, which is expected to expire this Sunday, May 24. In a democracy, it is normal for a top general to take a leave...
View ArticleAkın İpek emphasizes press freedoms as a core business principle
The Chairman of the Koza İpek Media Group Akın İpek underlines the values of an independent press, advising the principles of the rule of law preside over cases, including government-backed operations...
View ArticleSamanyolu files complaint against prosecutor seeking to silence dissident media
Turkey's Samanyolu Broadcasting Group has filed a complaint with the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) against Prosecutor Serdar Coşkun over his recent controversial bid to silence...
View ArticleBusinessmen, officers detained in police raids targeting Erdoğan critics
A number of people, including businessmen perceived to be supporters of Gülen movement, were detained simultaneously in 19 provinces on "terrorism" charges, in what is the latest example of a...
View ArticleRSF harshly condemns Turkish prosecutor’s request to silence dissident media...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has harshly condemned Turkey over a prosecutor's recent attempt to silence media critical of the government by asking a ministry to bar those media outlets from using...
View ArticleGYV holds panel discussion on corruption at UN Office in Vienna
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) has held a panel discussion on fight against corruption at the UN Office in Vienna. The discussion titled “Fight against Corruption from the Perspective of...
View ArticleGülen to launch legal action against pro-gov’t Star over libel
Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen will launch legal action against the pro-government Star daily for engaging in further attempts to libel and defame him, this time claiming that Gülen sent a...
View ArticleTurkish group to establish university in Lahore
Pak-Turk Group will establish an international standard university in Lahore and talks are in progress with the government in this regard. This was stated by Huseyin Unver, Regional Director Punjab...
View ArticleStudents from Turkish school send pocket money to needy ones in Nepal
Students of a Turkish school operating in Australia send their pocket money to people who were affected by a massive earthquake in Nepal. In New South Wales, Sydney Amity College launched an aid...
View ArticleSenegal minister: Turkish schools’ students our hope for the future
Welcoming the students of the Yavuz Selim Education Institutions after their success in international competitions, Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, the industry and mines minister of Senegal, said the students of...
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