New level of witch hunt: Relatives are targeted
Witch hunt in Turkey came to a new level by targeting relatives of people who are accused to be associated with Hizmet movement and Fethullah Gulen. On July 26, Turkish police stormed the house of...
View ArticleI Weep For Turkey
Cemal Yigit It has been the same topic of discourse everywhere. And it won’t stop anytime soon because of the atrocities that have followed, all in the name of sanitising the country and arresting...
View ArticleThe coup after the coup
Aydin Engin* On 15 July, Turkey fell victim to a "strange" coup attempt. Strange because the four successful coups (1960, 1971, 1980, 1998) and the two unsuccessful coups began around 3am, when...
View ArticleQuestions to be asked to Turkey foreign minister visiting India
Mohammad Behzad Fatmi As the foreign minister of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, visits New Delhi from August 18-20 for diplomatic parleys with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj, here's a list of...
View ArticleTurkish preacher isn't running terrorist gang
Fatih Harpci Fethullah Gülen is the man the Turkish president blames for a coup attempt on July 15 in Turkey. Well known as a Muslim social advocate and the inspirational leader of a civil society...
View ArticleDialogue and distrust: on the predicament of Gulen-inspired organisations in...
Frances Sleap Dialogue can be hard work. It is an indisputably good idea for there to be meaningful contact between people of different religious, ideological and cultural groups, but to make that...
View ArticleTurkish evidence for Gulen extradition pre-dates coup attempt
Turkey’s request for U.S. extradition of self-exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen refers only to his alleged activities before last month’s failed coup attempt, for which the Turks have not yet provided any...
View ArticleA strong message for Erdogan
Boston Globe Editorial Relations between Turkey and the United States, long strained, have grown even worse in the wake of the failed military uprising in July, which the government in Ankara has all...
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Al-Arabiya: Gulen confident US will not extradite him
In an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya News Channel, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen said he was confident that the United States will not extradite him after Turkey formally submitted its request...
View ArticleIrvine's new arrivals — Turkish asylum seekers, after a failed coup and a...
About a week ago, a 40-year-old Turkish man fled the only home he’s ever known – a city about 90 miles southeast of Istanbul. He flew 7,000 miles, to a city he’d never seen, a place that’s home to the...
View ArticleCoup attempt in Turkey puts Tulsa Turks in difficult position
A Muslim cleric accused by the president of Turkey of attempting to overthrow the government is at the center of a political maelstrom that reaches all the way to Tulsa. Fethullah Gulen is not exactly...
View ArticleSide effects of the coup
Muhammad Aziz, a private company employee in Islamabad, is concerned about the education of his two sons studying in PakTurk International Schools System. “It is astonishing that a political regime in...
View ArticleTanzania dismisses Turkish gov't allegations concerning Feza schools, asks...
Tanzania has dismissed an allegation by Turkey that the Feza schools in the country are being used to radicalise the youth and fund opposition against the Ankara government. Stung by a failed coup last...
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Fethullah Gülen condemns the terrorist attack in Gaziantep, Turkey
Fethullah Gülen I condemn, in the strongest terms, the barbaric terrorist attack on attendees of a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, Turkey that took the lives of more than fifty citizens, including...
View ArticleGulen Followers Living in Europe Receive Death Threats, Feel Intimidated
Some Turkish people living in Europe who have links to supporters of Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding the July 15 thwarted coup, have receive death threats and feel intimidated,...
View Article17 Nigerian-Turkish schools caught in Ankara coup crossfire
The authorities and parents of Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC), Lagos, Ogun branches have explained why the 17 schools Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan requested Nigerian...
View ArticleTurkey's [so-called] 'terrorists' active in India. But who are they really?
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who was in New Delhi recently, claimed that Fethullah Gulen's Hizmet movement has also infiltrated India. The Turkish government has now rebranded the...
View ArticleThe US Should Not Extradite Fethullah Gülen, To A Paranoid Turkish Government
Jon Mark Turkish president Erdogan is not letting up with his demands to the United States, that it extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen to face charges for a coup against the Turkish leader, which...
View ArticleTurks traumatised by Erdogan's post-coup crackdown
The sheer scale of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown, and the secretive nature of the organisation whose members are being hunted down, have placed Turkish society at risk of developing severe psychological...
View ArticleDialogue Institute provides insight in Kansas City area on Turkey
Pat Cooper* It has been about a month since the coup attempt in Turkey, and I worry about the future of that beautiful, historic country and its people. The chaos killed more than 150 people and left...
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