Crackdown on media increases with new detentions, attacks, censorship, report...
Many Turkish media outlets continue to face increasing pressure, with growing numbers of investigations into journalists, detentions and arrests for their critical stance against the government,...
View Article“We, on behalf of the people of Liberia, say thank you to the Turkish Light...
The Commissioner General of the Liberia Revenue Authority, (LRA) Elfrieda Stewart Tamba, has cautioned Liberian students to be respectful, serious and law-abiding in their academic sojourn as they are...
View Article‘If I had the power, I would let Turks take charge of our schools’
Zambian Education Minister Dr. John Phiri has said he would allow Turkish educators to be in charge of schools in Zambia if he had the power to do so. Phiri was speaking during a scholarship event held...
View ArticleInternational press delegation visits Zaman headquarters for crisis situation
Journalists from the Zaman and Today's Zaman dailies met with an international coalition of free expression groups on Wednesday morning and at the newspapers' headquarters to discuss the censorship...
View ArticleLast call for Turkish passengers
Sevgi Akarçeşme It was evident that things were rapidly going to get worse in Turkey when then then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided to cover up the massive corruption probes, create an...
View ArticleNov.1: No security of life and property, but there is hope
Ali Yurttagül Today is Nov. 1. It is a historic day for Turkey. The people went to the polls for a second time in five months. We are having this general election because a tiny minority of people...
View ArticleWhen the state steals newspapers
Mustafa Akyol What happened in Turkey on Oct. 28 is something that should enter the Guinness Book of World Records, if it ever includes a chapter on “authoritarianism.” Two newspapers and two news...
View ArticleWorld’s leading media editors ask Erdoğan to respect critical media
At least 50 editors from the world's leading media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Agence France-Presse (AFP), signaled alarm this week over the fate...
View ArticleIs Turkey at the Breaking Point?
Michael Rubin On October 26, 2015, the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office — a body wholly under the thumb of Turkey’s mercurial and increasingly authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — ruled that...
View ArticleDefamation campaign against Gülen draws heavy criticism
Many prominent figures in the society have slammed an apparent defamation campaign targeting Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen through the inclusion of his name among the list of most dangerous...
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US Professor Carter: Gülen struggles for peace against poverty and terrorism
Professor Lawrence E. Carter , the Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, has said Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is giving a struggle for peace across the world with...
View Article’Get out, impertinent man’
Günal Kurşun The claim about Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is that he has established and administers a terrorist organization called the Fethullah Terror Organization (FETÖ). In order to believe...
View ArticleAzeri media slams Turkish reports claiming Gülen has ties in SOCAR
Azerbaijan’s semi-official news agency APA has criticized several reports in Turkey claiming there are ties between a number of senior SOCAR employees and the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar...
View ArticleTGS’s Kuleli: Government encirclement of the media has been getting tighter
This week's guest for Monday Talk has said that the government's clampdown on the media has been intensifying and might get even worse if current trends are anything to go by.“Since the June 7...
View ArticleTop int’l press body says pressure on media threatens democracy in Turkey
The International Press Institute (IPI) has said in a report released on Saturday detailing the findings of the Joint International Emergency Press Freedom Mission to Turkey -- which was undertaken...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen’s photo
Ekrem Dumanlı A religious cleric, currently a popular figure who frequently appears on TV, once told me a sad anecdote. He said: “We traveled to İstanbul together with my father following the 1980 coup...
View ArticleIPA: Raids on critical media direct threat to Turkish democracy
International Publishers Association (IPA) President Richard Charkin has condemned the unlawful takeover of the İpek media outlets, whose headquarters were stormed by riot police shortly after dawn on...
View ArticleAs pressure mounts, walls between different social segments eliminated
Abdülhamit Bilici Regardless of the election outcome, the main concern should be democracy and justice for all and addressing our flaws in this matter. We have not done much to fulfill these goals....
View ArticleEU concerned Bank Asya seizure was politically motivated
A European Commission report on Turkey that was held back until after the Nov. 1 election has criticized the recent intervention by the country's banking watchdog in leading Islamic lender Bank Asya,...
View ArticleTrustees dismiss 71 journalists after unlawful İpek Media Group seizure
Seventy-one journalists were dismissed early Tuesday from the İpek Media Group, which was unlawfully seized in a government-led police operation in late October with the assignment of a number of...
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