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Abuja hosts 2016 Int’l Festival of Language and Culture
Children from different parts of the country took to the stage in Abuja for the 14th International Festival of Language and Culture. The International Festival of Language and Culture is a pioneer in...
View ArticleTrustees fire 600 journalists after taking over management of Feza Media group
Around 600 journalists have been fired from Zaman and Today’s Zaman dailies, Cihan news agency and Irmak TV station, after trustees were appointed to the management of Feza Media Group in a...
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Gov’t suppression of press makes social media alternative platform, survey says
The “Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016” has revealed that social media has increasingly become an alternative platform for news in Turkey as the government intensifies its suppression of...
View ArticleHow I became an ‘indecent’ journalist overnight and fired?
Selcuk Gultasli* Back in April, I realized I had a message at my answering machine. Surprisingly it was the first call from my newspaper in almost a month after it was brutally seized by the court...
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Pacifica Institute and Redmond United Methodist come together for Interfaith...
A group of about 130 people gathered at Redmond United Methodist Church (RUMC) for dinner on Sunday evening. But rather than a room full of Christians, as the venue may imply, the dinner was the...
View Article‘Nigeria moving towards peaceful, happy future’
Notwithstanding the series of conflicts in various parts of the country, there is a high hope that Nigeria is heading towards peace and a brighter future, Initiator of the Hizmet Movement and foremost...
View ArticleTurkey appoints 2,000 trustees to private entities in 6 months
A total of 2,000 trustees were appointed to hundreds of private entities in Turkey over the past six months, in what is considered an alarming issue regarding increasing government control across the...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen's statement on the Orlando shooting attack
Fethullah GülenI am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific attack that took place in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. I unequivocally condemn this hate-driven...
View ArticleTwo teachers of the Turkish School killed in Somalia school bus attack
Ali Bulac In Somalia where hunger, poverty, fanaticism, civil war and terror prevails, two volunteers of education were killedon the last day of March 2016. One of the people who lost her life in that...
View ArticleTürksat to drop critical Can Erzincan TV on July 16 in gov’t-led move
Can Erzincan TV — a station known for its critical stance against the government — will be removed from the Turkish Satellite Communications Company (Türksat) on suspicions that include “making...
View ArticleTurks living in Britain see it as their duty to integrate
Erdem Dikici* For a long time, Turks have been a largely invisible minority group in Britain. But thanks to those campaigning for a British exit from the European Union who have argued that Turks are a...
View ArticlePACE report says seizure of newspapers done irreparable harm to media freedom...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) report has stated that appointment of trustees to critical newspapers to take over the management has done irreparable harm to media freedom...
View ArticleUS drops accusations against Gülen brought by Turkey’s AK Party gov’t
Robert Mariani, United States (US) Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, dropped accusations against US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, stating that there is no ground for the...
View ArticleTrustees appointed to Turgut Özal University’s foundation in gov’t-led move
An Ankara court appointed trustees to the Turgut Özal Thought and Action Foundation, which established the Turgut Özal University, in what is the latest in a series of government takeovers as part of...
View ArticleTurkish daily calls for end of censorship on media over gov’t-led ban on website
Yarına Bakış, a Turkish daily critical of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government, has released a public statement after its website was banned by the Telecommunications...
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Independent daily defies censor: ‘We are under attack over voicing gov’t’s...
One of the few remaining independent dailies in Turkey, Yeni Hayat, has released a public statement after access to its website was blocked over its lead story on Thursday — which claimed there are...
View ArticleImam Ali: Hizmet Movement represents the heart of the religion, the core...
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 47 (Full text) My name is Imam Shams Ali**. I’m the director of Jamaica Muslim Center. I’m an imam based here in New York City, in the United States. I’m an immigrant. I have...
View ArticleTurkish Publishers’ Association: Turkey becoming country of prohibitions
Turkish Publishers’ Association (TPA) has published “Freedom to Publish in Turkey 2016 Report,” in which it stated that Turkey is speedily becoming a country of prohibitions. The TPA releases an annual...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen's message of condolence for victims of the ISIS attacks in...
Fethullah Gülen I condemn in the strongest terms the brutal terrorist attacks that took place in Baghdad, Iraq, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians,...
View ArticleAs ISIS Attacks Mount, Turkey Steps Up Its War on Free Speech
Alev Scott Sevgi Akarçeşme made sure she arrived at work early on the day her Istanbul office was swarmed by riot police. “[President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan had made it clear he was going after us,”...
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