Turkey's purge becoming witch-hunt, activists warn
Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned on Wednesday that the country’s post-coup crackdown is not over. Thousands of military personnel, journalists and academics have been detained and many...
View Article'Zaman International Schools operates in line with Cambodian laws and...
In response to statements made by the Turkish ambassador to Cambodia on Monday, officials from the Zaman International School (ZIS) yesterday denied any links with terrorist organizations, saying the...
View ArticleTurkey Faces International Trouble for Persecuting Gulen’s Schools
The Turkish authorities’ pursuit of Fethullah Gulen’s schools is damaging Turkey’s relations with some countries that host schools of “Hizmet Movement” (Service Movement of Gulen), classified by Ankara...
View ArticleWhy Erdogan should take a lesson from India
Alok Mukherjee* On a recent trip, our young taxi driver hailed from Turkey. Inevitably, our conversation turned to recent events there. My wife and I love that beautiful country, which we have visited...
View ArticleTurkish President using the Hizmet Participants (Gulen Movement) as...
As more and more speculations are ongoing as a fall out of the attempted military coup in Turkey on Friday July 15, the Ufuk Dialogue has reiterated that there is no place for military interventions in...
View ArticleTurkey’s President Is Using the Coup Attempt to Crack Down on the Media
Turkish journalists and rights groups say the new restrictions signal a major acceleration of a clampdown on the press that was already underway well before a faction of the Turkish military attempted...
View ArticleFreedom of expression: UN and OSCE experts deplore crackdown on journalists...
Two top media freedom experts of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today condemned the ongoing crackdown on journalists and the media launched by...
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Disregard call to close Turkish schools – Proprietors tell Nigerian govt
Owners of the Nigeria Turkish International College have urged Nigeria to disregard the call by the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Hakan Cakil, to close its schools in the country. The proprietors...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Turkey ‘looking for scapegoats’ by linking schools in Nigeria to...
The management of the Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC) says the Turkish government wants to shut down its investments in Nigeria because of its philosophical affiliation with Fethullah...
View ArticlePak-Turk schools may not be shut down after all
Uncertainty surrounds the future of Pak-Turk schools in the country. In the wake of the foiled military coup in Turkey, the country’s ambassador to Pakistan has urged for the shutdown of all Pak-Turk...
View ArticleIn Debt to Turkey, Somalia Shuts Network Tied to Fethullah Gulen
Barely 12 hours after a failed coup in Turkey, Somalia’s cabinet met to consider a request from Turkey to shut down two schools and a hospital linked to Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric whom the...
View ArticleGulen supporters in Netherlands accuse Turkish government of ‘witch-hunt’
Dozens of Turks living in the Netherlands who support exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen have been assaulted and received death threats, while several buildings hosting groups affiliated with the cleric...
View ArticleGulen to NRT: I am not hiding and not on the run [VIDEO]
Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, living in self-imposed exile in the United States, denied on Friday (July 30) allegations made by some Turkish and Arab media networks that he had escaped from...
View ArticleTurkish schools ‘will not be closed’: Indonesian Minister
The Culture and Education Ministry has ensured that it will not close nine Indonesian educational institutions accused of being affiliated with Fethullah Gulen, who has been labelled a terrorist by the...
View ArticleTurkish request to close schools in Indonesia sidelined
Indonesia has coyly asked Turkey to step back following a request to shut down a number of schools in Indonesia, which are affiliated with Fethullah Gülen, the alleged mastermind behind the failed coup...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen: «President Erdogan is suffering from power poisoning»
Interview with US-based Turkish imam who denies any role in the recent failed coup in Turkey] Interview with US-based Turkish imam who denies any role in the recent failed coup in Turkey1) EUROPE....
View ArticleThe term ‘Fetö’ is a misnomer
It disturbed me to see your newspaper uncritically using the term ‘Fetö’ – standing for the so-called ‘Fethullah Gülen Terrorist Organisation’, which is a rather bizarre creation of the paranoid...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Turkey About Turkey
Reuben Abati I was shocked by the trenchant reaction to my piece on the July 15 attempted coup in Turkey from at least two persons. The piece titled “Nigerians and the Failed Coup in Turkey” (The...
View ArticleTurkish police detain wife of critical journalist as a hostage
Turkish authorities have detained wife of a critical Turkish journalist and will keep her as a hostage until her husband surrenders to police, an episode that has long symbolized police states in the...
View ArticleStudents, parents protest possible closure of Pak-Turk School in Khairpur
A large number of students and their parents protested the closure of Pak-Turk School in Khairpur outside the school’s building on Saturday. The students were carrying placards inscribed with slogans...
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