History of the Hizmet movement and Fethullah Gülen’s philosophy revisited
James C. Harrington The Hizmet movement began gradually in the 1960s under the guidance of Fethullah Gülen and took on public legitimacy with Turgut Özal’s official recognition and blessing when he was...
View ArticleParents seek TL 40,000 in damages for violation of students’ educational rights
Parents İsmail and Seval Topçuoğlu are seeking TL 40,000 in damages from the Education Ministry for violating students' educational rights by adopting a new regulation about dershanes (prep schools),...
View ArticleMedia group targeted with politically motivated search warrant
The government has launched a police raid on the corporate offices of a critical media group that has already been facing heavy government pressure for the last three years, citing highly questionable...
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Raid on Koza İpek Media Group comes after reports on transfer of weapons to ISIL
Police raided the offices of a Turkish conglomerate and media group after the Bugün daily ran a lead story showing the transfer of weapons and explosives to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the...
View ArticleThe raid on İpek Media
Emre Uslu The same day that the İpek Media Group documented Turkey providing weapons and supplies to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), it was raided. While not a single security raid...
View ArticleIf free media is silenced, the entire country will be silenced
Bülent Keneş Turkey has found itself right in the middle of a nightmare with the escalation of terrorist attacks, oddly enough in the wake of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) defeat in the...
View ArticleAmerica’s first Islamic university starts academic journey
The first university to be founded by Muslims to teach Islamic studies in the United States has started its new academic year, promising to be a leading institution in educating future scholars,...
View ArticleNGO condemns raid on headquarters of critical media group
Freedom and Democracy Platform President Vedat Öztürk has condemned the unlawful police operation against Koza İpek Holding on Tuesday that came as part of the government's crackdown on critical media,...
View ArticleOpposition slams raids on businesses, media outlets; EU minister worried
CHP forms commission to monitor crackdown on media The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has formed a commission consisting of deputies with a background in journalism to monitor...
View ArticleEuropean politicians call on gov’t to stop raids on critical media
European Union politicians have expressed increasing concern over police raids against media outlets critical of the government, following a raid targeting Koza İpek Holding, with Rebecca Harms,...
View ArticleAssociation of European Journalists: Turkish raids on media seem to be...
The Association of European Journalists on Tuesday harshly criticized police raids on media outlets that are critical of the government in Turkey, saying the current crackdown appears to be politically...
View ArticleJournalists criticize raids on İpek Media Group
Prominent journalists in Turkey have taken to Twitter to express their outrage at the recent police raid on Koza İpek Holding, which includes media outlets, a university and businesses, noting the...
View ArticlePress organizations condemn police raids against İpek Media Group
Press organizations have condemned police raids on Koza İpek Holding and its subsidiaries, defining the operation as “political” and aimed at silencing free media. Auditors accompanied by a police...
View ArticleJurists define gov’t-led raid on critical media as act of despotism
The police raid on the Bugün daily, a media outlet critical of the government owned by Koza İpek Holding, on Tuesday has been slammed by a number of jurists as the crackdown is viewed as another act of...
View ArticleAmnesty International expresses concern over state of journalists in Turkey
In the wake of Turkey’s latest government-backed crackdown against Koza İpek Holding, parent company of İpek Media Group, Amnesty International has expressed its grave concern over press suppression...
View ArticleFEM prep schools file complaint against Ministry of Education employees
A lawyer representing FEM prep schools in the province of Zonguldak has filed a criminal complaint against employees of the Ministry of Education and the Zonguldak Provincial Directorate for National...
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Dailies from İpek Media Group say they will not stay silent
The Bugün and Millet dailies of the İpek Media Group, which was raided by Turkish police on Tuesday as a part of a government-backed operation, in their Wednesday headlines proclaimed “We will not stay...
View ArticleGov’t plans to seize critical media group ahead of election
The Turkish government is reportedly planning to seize a big conglomerate whose media holdings are critical of the government ahead of the Nov. 1 general election by orchestrating falsified reports...
View ArticleAfSV Statement on Media and Business Crackdown
The Alliance for Shared Values denounces the politically-motivated raids on Koza Ipek holding group, publisher of opposition Bugun daily, as well as the arrest of two British journalists and their...
View ArticleAhmet Altan: Turkey will not allow mafia-style governance
Author and journalist Ahmet Altan has strongly criticized the government-led raids on Koza İpek Holding, saying if one truly wants to understand what is going on currently, they should watch mafia...
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