The latest step by AKP-Gov’t witch-hunt against Hizmet Movement
What happened? This morning, Turkish government have forcibly taken over and appointed trustees (kayyım) to Kaynak Holding, a conglomerate of publishers and school material producers, closely...
View ArticleCHP chairman slams unlawful trustee appointments to leading companies
Chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has strongly criticized the recent government-orchestrated appointment of trustees to leading private companies,...
View ArticlePast: Bank Asya and Koza İpek Holding. Present: Kaynak Holding. Who tomorrow?
Murat Aksoy The social and economic discrimination the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been waging against the Hizmet movement has turned into a witch hunt in Turkey and around the...
View Article‘There is an asymmetrical war between sheer power and values in Turkey’
Sevgi Akarçeşme Psychiatrist Vedat Bilgiç, the author of the book “Müşfik Diktatör" (Compassionate Dictator), recommended that people hold on to their values in the face of mounting pressure and hate...
View ArticleUpping the ante on evil
Bülent Korucu The hate operations targeting the Hizmet (Gülen) movement have recently had its climax. At a time when a party which brags about protecting the rights of “headscarved women” was in power,...
View ArticleTurkey’s future with ISIS and Syrianization
İhsan Yılmaz The massacre that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has committed in Paris is the start of a new war. This will be a bloody and long war. Even if ISIS is annihilated, the fact...
View ArticleGov’t abuses trustee system to seize firms, critical media, publishers
The legal mechanisms for takeovers and seizures of private enterprises, originally designed to protect the public from losses and keep the market economy functioning unhindered, are now being blatantly...
View ArticleGov’t witch hunt against Gülen movement in Eskişehir and Manisa suffers backlash
Detentions and arrests of citizens, including human rights defenders, philanthropists, teachers, businessmen and housewives, in Eskişehir and Manisa provinces, as part of an escalating government witch...
View ArticleÖzgür Düşünce rises from ashes of gov’t-seized Bugün daily
On Tuesday the Özgür Düşünce (Free Thought) daily, published by a group of journalists who were fired from the İpek Media Group after it was seized under extraordinary circumstances in a government-led...
View ArticleTarık Toros: I hope Koza İpek resistance is seen as gift to journalism in...
Bugün TV and Kanaltürk General Manager Tarık Toros, who has gone down in Turkish press history as a defender of free media due to the honorable stance he took when the main broadcasting room of Bugün...
View ArticlePresidential confession
Sevgi Akarçeşme If you try to form an opinion of how the G-20 summit went from Turkey's perspective based on the government-controlled media's reporting, you could easily believe that Turkey's...
View ArticleSenior CHP official says pressure on media in Turkey is ‘terrorism’
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Enis Berberoğlu has said that the government's pressure on the media and its use as a tool to eliminate political rivals is an act of...
View ArticleLawyer of raided schools: Terror groups do not open schools, they raid them
The lawyer representing a number of schools that were raided in a government-initiated operation in Bilecik province on Saturday and Sunday based on their supposed affiliation with an alleged terrorist...
View ArticleTrustees decide to remove Gülen’s books from NT bookstores
In an explicit example of censorship, a panel of trustees who were appointed to Kaynak Holding last week in a government-backed move has decided to have copies of all books written by Turkish Islamic...
View ArticleGoods signed by Obama, Stallone auctioned at Turkish organization fundraiser
Boxing gloves, baseballs and photographs signed by public figures like US President Barack Obama and actor Sylvester Stallone were auctioned off at a fundraising event for a Turkish group in New York...
View ArticleSaudi Scholar: Turkish gov’t must give up ‘terrorist’ slander against Gülen
One of Saudi Arabia's prominent scholars and academics, Professor Hatim b. Arif al-Awni said that Fethullah Gülen is far from terrorism, extremism and violence. In an exclusive interview with Cihan...
View ArticleAvcı’s wife: The government doesn’t want a single opposing voice
Nurdan Avcı, the wife of journalist Gültekin Avcı who was arrested on charges of attempted overthrow the government in seven columns he wrote for the Bugün daily, said the Justice and Development Party...
View ArticleTurkish Islamists won’t battle ISIL
Abdullah Bozkurt The duplicitous discourse from Turkey's political Islamist rulers, who lead a hate campaign by example while merely paying lip service to the fight against extremism through symbolic...
View ArticleIrrelevance of reform pledges
Lale Kemal There has been an ongoing massive crackdown on companies and their affiliates in the media sector that are perceived as critical of the Turkish government. Hence, the ruling Justice and...
View ArticleHandcuffed headscarved women, religion teacher arrested by ’Islamic’ government
Abdülhamit Bilici The ongoing state of madness, reminiscent of previous extraordinary periods, will certainly come to an end. Oppressors will be tried sooner or later. Worse still, no one will attend...
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