Court issues injunction on YÖK circular closing down Şifa University polyclinics
Şifa University, whose nine outpatient polyclinics in İzmir were shut down earlier this month because of a circular released by the Higher Education Board (YÖK), has said the polyclinics will continue...
View ArticleAKP’s ‘book burning’ stage
İhsan Yılmaz The Justice and Development Party (AKP) regime is gradually eradicating democracy in Turkey. Hundreds of people have been tried just because they have criticized Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Many...
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Newly appointed chairwoman: Kimse Yok Mu is my fourth child
Ayşe Özkalay, the newly appointed chairwoman of the Turkish charitable foundation Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There), has said that the foundation has become her fourth child.Ayşe Özkalay, the newly...
View Article‘Terrorist’
Bülent Keneş Although there is not a full consensus internationally about its definition, there is a common understanding of what is meant by "terrorism" and who and what a "terrorist organization" or...
View ArticleTurkey’s ‘terrorist’ inflation problem
Sevgi Akarçeşme Turkey has never fully enjoyed the benefits of the rule of law under any government in its history. For citizens of this country, it meant to feel both blessed and cursed at the same...
View ArticleGov’t witch hunt escalates across Turkey in 2015
A number of businessmen, teachers, police officers, press members and philanthropists across Turkey have been dismissed from their jobs, detained or arrested, as government-initiated witch hunt...
View ArticleBusinessman targeted by gov’t disputes ’false reports’
Koza İpek Holding CEO Akın İpek has objected to media reports that a government freeze on his assets abroad is imminent based on charges of financing terrorism, denying that there are any financial...
View ArticleLaw professor Özgenç: Cabinet has no authority to declare anyone terrorist
A judge cannot label a group or people connected to it as terrorists based on a decision by the Cabinet, which has no authority to declare an individual or group as terrorists, Professor İzzet Özgenç,...
View ArticleBleeding wounds
Bülent Keneş We have arrived at the end of one more year, a lackluster, weak year, one reminiscent of a wound that never seemed to heal or scab over. We somehow managed to add even more wounds this...
View ArticleEach new year is the feeling of a hopeful new beginning
Cafer Solgun Turkey is entering yet another new year with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in power. Each new year brings with it the sentiments of a new beginning but the AKP has dulled this...
View ArticleThe AKP-Israeli thaw
İhsan Yılmaz A huge propaganda machine is working against the Hizmet movement, both in Turkey and across the world. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been working with all sorts of allies to...
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Al-Azhar professor: Gülen courageously resists radicalism
Fethullah Gülen Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen teaches real Islam to the world while bravely resisting the destruction of the religion by radical and barbaric Muslims, a world-renowned...
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Gov’t blocks access of 21 private hospitals to social security
The Social Security Institution (SGK) has unilaterally canceled its contracts with 21 privately run hospitals without citing a reason in what is suspected of being a politically motivated decision,...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu to sue Kaynak trustees for illegally revealing charity’s documents
Officials from the Kimse Yok Mu charity announced on Friday that they will file a criminal complaint against the trustees who were appointed to run Kaynak Holding, a group consisting of 23 companies,...
View ArticleErdoğan and Hitler
İhsan Yılmaz President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as Today's Zaman reported, “has said the implementation of a presidential system while remaining a unitary state is possible, showing Hitler's Germany as an...
View Article2015 marks a bleak year for Turkish economy
Once the front-runner in the league of emerging markets, the Turkish economy finished 2015 with external pressures along with ever-growing internal woes, both of which have spooked foreign investors in...
View Article‘AK Party puts pressure on academia through ‘parallel’ accusations’
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government is putting pressure on dissident voices among Turkish academics through baseless accusations, such as their being members of a terrorist...
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French editor says Gülen’s messages on anti-terrorism revolutionary
A French editor-in-chief has praised the anti-terrorism messages in an article written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and published by a prestigious French daily last month, describing them...
View Article'Fethullah Gulen has dedicated his life to the betterment of the society'
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 36 (Full text) ...This movement is teaching its followers and all those with whom it comes in contact with that modernity is not an enemy of Islam. But rather, we can find...
View ArticleCan religion and politics have common goals, work together and overlap in...
Dogu Ergil According to Gulen acceptance of the religion’s expression of its sacredness would be not to use it for any worldly purposes; it would not be exploited for worldly or spiritual gains....
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