Intellectuals from West, East agree Gülen movement works for a better world
At a time when the faith-based Gülen movement is under heavy government pressure in Turkey, intellectuals from various countries have praised the movement for its efforts to make the world a better...
View ArticleGov’t using Dink murder case to smear Hizmet movement
A prominent political scientist, retired professor Baskın Oran, has said the trial concerning the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has been used by the government to target the...
View ArticleAsya shareholders being forced to sell lender, lawyer says
Nearly a year after a controversial regulatory decision about Islamic lender Bank Asya, shareholders are now under pressure to allow the sale of the bank. In a phone interview with Today's Zaman on...
View ArticleSamanyolu airs 9-hour special program on arrested journalists
Samanyolu Haber TV aired a nine-hour special program on Saturday during which colleagues and family members of journalists who have been arrested talked about their experiences, declining press freedom...
View ArticleHow the rule of law has been dismantled
Şahin Alpay Two years ago this week Turkey woke up to the gravest graft probe in the history of the Republic of Turkey that involved members of government, their family members, top businessmen and...
View ArticleCourt to hold first hearing in controversial Tahşiyeciler case on Tuesday
The first hearing of a case in which dozens of suspects, including journalists, are facing charges of membership in a terrorist organization for allegedly framing the al-Qaeda-affiliated group...
View ArticlePersecuting lawmakers in Turkey: İlhan İşbilen case
Abdullah Bozkurt The unwarranted arrest of former legislator and well-respected businessman İlhan İşbilen on farcical charges indicates a new peak in the persecution and intimidation campaign against...
View ArticleThe civil coup after Dec. 17 and 25
Sevgi Kuru Açıkgöz The dates Dec. 17 and Dec. 25, 2013 have come to symbolize a negative turning point in Turkey's political environment. Two years ago, two massive graft investigations implicating...
View ArticleAn old Turkish disease
Abdülhamit Bilici In societies like ours that fail to solve fundamental issues in education, health, justice and democracy, the easiest response is to put the blame on others. You ask for help from...
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Kaynak Holding shareholders warn trustees against changing content of Sızıntı
Shareholders of Kaynak Holding, a large company seized in a government-orchestrated operation on Nov. 18, have warned trustees appointed to it against changing the content of the magazine Sızıntı....
View ArticleMEK: Gov’t oppression reminiscent of early years of Turkish Republic
Media Ethics Council (MEK) President Halit Esendir, for whom a detention warrant was issued on Dec. 11 as a part of operations against the Hizmet movement, has said he is being punished because the...
View ArticleIndictment with no solid evidence marks first hearing in Tahşiyeciler trial
Lawyers representing dozens of suspects, including media members who face charges of membership in a terrorist organization for allegedly conspiring against an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, have stated...
View ArticleJudicial independence rendered obsolete in 2015
The impartiality and independence of the Turkish judiciary hit rock bottom in 2015 as former legislators, prosecutors and even judges were jailed based on charges that lacked any legal basis as well as...
View ArticleFormer deputy Uras: Erdoğan struck deal with Ergenekon against Gülen movement
A former member of Parliament, academic Ufuk Uras claimed during an interview with a daily on Monday that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had made a deal with the leaders of the Ergenekon clandestine...
View ArticleFrom al-Qaeda to Amsterdam, from İstanbul to Pennsylvania
Bülent Keneş I guess a lawsuit that had its first hearing on Tuesday in İstanbul has garnered heightened interest, not just in Turkey, but also in Europe and the US. The "conspiracy against the...
View ArticleLawyer says Gülen ready to testify as part of Tahşiyeciler case
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is ready to testify to judicial authorities in the US over allegations that he conspired against the al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as Tahşiyeciler, his lawyer...
View ArticleDavutoğlu’s dead end
Ali Yurttagül Our country experienced a visible level of palace intrigue during the second half of 2015, not just when democracy was completely discounted, but when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
View ArticleBad news for Erdoğan’s lawyers in the US
İhsan Yılmaz Several weeks ago, a lawyer based in England and Canada, Mr. Robert Amsterdam, announced in the US that he had been hired by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to sue...
View ArticleCPJ’s Nina Ognianova: The arrest of Hidayet Karaca is politically motivated
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is one of the leading globally structured organizations which promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without...
View ArticleCamps in the Hizmet-Gulen Movement Tradition
Marcia HermansenBrief history of the movement Broadly speaking, the development of the Gülen movement can be described as occurring through three phases. The first and initial period would be from the...
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