Is Erdogan seeing Gulenists or ghosts?
Simon A. Waldman* The attempted military coup in Turkey ended in total failure. Within 24 hours, the AKP government and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained control. Within hours it initiated a...
View ArticleWho is Fethullah Gulen?
Ra'fat Aldajani, Drew Christiansen Who is Fethullah Gulen, and what is the Gulen movement? Readers of headlines and consumers of news broadcasts are likely to identify him as the alleged mastermind...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Coup? Why You Should Care About A “Reclusive” Turkish...
John Barton* Fethullah Gülen may be the most influential Muslim leader in the world that you’ve never heard of. Or, at least, that may have been true until last week. Gülen, a “reclusive” Turkish imam...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy
Fethullah Gulen* During the attempted military coup in Turkey this month, I condemned it in the strongest terms. “Government should be won through a process of free and fair elections, not force,” I...
View ArticleUnder Erdogan Turkey is modeled on the Third Reich
Robert Ellis At New Year, Turkey’s President Erdogan famously mentioned Hitler’s Germany as an example of an executive presidency, and the reference seems to be apt.It was not long after Erdogan’s AKP...
View ArticleTurkey’s president is using the failed coup as an excuse to snuff out secular...
Kerim Balci In the immediate aftermath of the Turkish military’s attempted coup on July 15, the international community responded with relief. While many people within Turkey and outside of it are no...
View ArticleGülen: Erdoğan is turning failed putsch into slow-motion coup against...
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has said that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is turning a recent failed putsch attempt in Turkey into a slow-motion coup of his own against constitutional...
View ArticleIs this Erdogan’s play for autocratic power in Turkey?
Oreoluwa Runsewe Turkey’s failed coup on the 15th of July continues to throw up questions as more people get arrested and detained in its aftermath. Soldiers, policemen, teachers, government officials...
View ArticleThe Gulen Movement is not a Cult or Terrorist Group
Nathan Glover On July 15, Turkey had a failed coup against the government which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed on an exiled Islamic leader living in rural Pennsylvania. Gulen Movement...
View ArticleExpert: Gulen movement painted as being something beyond what they ever were.
Tony Jones speaks with Greg Barton and asks him what is the likely scenario for security in Turkey following President Erdogan's announcement of a three month state of emergency.Watch Video:...
View ArticleAntagonism Grows with Turkey Over Gulen Links
The privately run Chingiz Aitmatov Kyrgyz-Turkish Boys High School stands out in its dusty setting in a northern suburb of Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek. Its record of academic achievement, drawing on...
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The Dutch Turkish community must speak out about the anti-Gülen violence
Labour MP Ahmed Marcouch calls on Turkish-Dutch organisations to speak out about violence and intimidation and to build bridges instead. There’s a silence and it’s hurting my ears. It’s the silence...
View ArticleTurkey Expansion of Journalist Arrests Reflects Post-Coup ‘Witch Hunt’
Turkey is jailing people for simply criticizing the government or for expressing support for ideas of exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, according to the report of the advocacy group Reporters...
View ArticleHow Kyrgyzstan and Turkey quarreled about Gülen
Kyrgyzstan once again got into an international scandal. This time - with a strategic partner - Turkey, where the military attempted to overthrow the head of the country Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July...
View ArticleTurkey shuts down 45 newspapers, 16 TV channels with latest emergency decree
Turkish government has shut down 45 newspapers and 16 TV channels, among other media outlets, with the second emergency decree having the force of law as part of widening crackdown on media in Turkey....
View ArticleIFJ calls on EU to hold Erdoğan accountable for escalating press freedom...
The International and the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) has called on the European Union (EU) to take additional steps to hold Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accountable for...
View ArticleEU says issuing arrest warrants for large number of journalists ‘worrying’
A European Union (EU) spokesperson has responded to a question by the Turkish Minute on the latest arrest warrants issued for nearly 100 journalists in Turkey, as part of a widening crackdown on media,...
View ArticleDutch MP’s furious about pressure from Turkish ambassador
Parties in the Tweede Kamer – the lower house of Dutch parliament – are furious about statements the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands made pressuring the Dutch government to help hunt down...
View ArticleGulen Schools Fight Provokes New Tensions in Bosnia
A feud between Bosnian schools connected to Fethullah Gulen, alleged leader of the recent Turkish coup, and Turkish authorities in Ankara could exacerbate rifts within Bosnia, an international...
View ArticleWhen will we learn from history?
Shannon Ebrahim Is what Hitler did in his first few months in power not being replicated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan? The measures taken to exert complete control over the society are...
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