Larger than Stasi: Turkey has ‘6,000 agents in Germany’ to oppress Gulenists...
An army of “Turkish agents” larger than East Germany’s Stasi secret service threatens the German Turkish diaspora, and its alleged existence raises controversy over intelligence cooperation between the...
View ArticleThe Hizmet Movement: ‘Terrorist’ or Terrorised?
Yousuf Zubair After the attempted military coup in Turkey on 15 July, President Erdogan and officials within the Turkish government seem to have unequivocally blamed sympathisers of the Hizmet movement...
View ArticleBiden in Turkey: Holding the Line on Human Rights
Melissa Hooper This week, Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Turkey to meet with President Erdogan and Prime Minister Yildirim. This is one of the last opportunities for the Obama Administration...
View ArticleBiden needs to give Turkey’s Erdogan some tough advice
Washington Post Editorial Board When Vice President Biden meets with the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara this week, Mr. Biden will need all the reservoirs of patience and...
View ArticleLocal Turks [in Chicago] fear for safety of friends, family overseas after...
Mustafa has never met his sister’s neighbor, but two weeks ago, he received a WhatsApp message from her.“Your dad passed away,” it read in Turkish. He frantically messaged back: How did he die? What...
View ArticleBiden says US courts to decide on Gülen’s extradition
US Vice President Joe Biden, who arrived in Ankara on Wednesday, said the US administration wants to cooperate with Turkey over the Turkish government’s request for the extradition of Turkish Islamic...
View ArticleTurkey Targets Gulen-Inspired Projects Around the World
In past years, big names in South Africa picked up the annual Gulen Peace Award, a local accolade inspired by a Turkish preacher who has been blamed by Turkey for an attempted coup last month. Both...
View ArticleWhat does Turkey deserve?
Vicky Anderson* Life never will be the same for millions in Turkey after the foiled coup of July 15. Naturally, intense trauma is to be expected from the unprecedented bombing of the parliament...
View ArticleTurkey accused of 'systematic spying' in Austria
An Austrian politician has accused Turkish authorities of spying on people living in Austria who are opposed to the Turkish leader President Tayyip Erdogan. It follows similar accusations made in...
View ArticleIn University Purge, Turkey’s Erdogan Hits Secularists and Boosts Conservatives
On the humid afternoon after July’s bloody coup attempt, signs of a rift that is redefining this nation’s academia played out in two cities 400 miles apart. In Istanbul, Nil Mutluer grabbed her...
View ArticleIndia must understand Erdogan’s ideological motives for seeking extradition...
Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi* After the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused his former ally and an avowedly moderate Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen of plotting the failed coup, the Turkish...
View ArticleWhat Erdogan and Khomeini Have in Common
Alireza Nader The Turkish president’s post-coup crackdowns are following in the footsteps of Iran’s Islamic revolution. The Turkish secular elite who have long feared an Iranian-style theocracy in...
View ArticleErdoğan’s former speechwriter: Call for Gülen’s return was tactical move
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s former speechwriter and current Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Aydın Ünal wrote on Thursday that Erdoğan has never liked Islamic scholar Fethullah...
View ArticleTurkey has shown no evidence of Gulen coup role: US
Turkey has submitted four extradition requests for the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen but offered no evidence tying him to last month's failed coup, a senior US official said on Wednesday."They have...
View ArticleGYV president Ussak passes away in exile
A renowned intellectual, journalist and president of the Journalists’ and Writers’ Foundation (GYV) Cemal Ussak, who was among the targets of the Turkish government's ongoing crackdown on the faith...
View ArticleZaman school resists call for closure
Zaman school officials and parents yesterday urged the Cambodian government not to shutter the schools as the Turkish Ambassador to Cambodia Ilhan Tug has requested, saying students will ultimately...
View ArticleTurkey Concedes: No Evidence Linking Gulen to Coup Sent to Washington
Turkey is conceding it has not sent any evidence to Washington linking Fethullah Gulen to the failed July 15 coup attempt, despite increasingly angry calls by Ankara for the United States to extradite...
View ArticleTurks Should Question The Official Narrative That Gulen Was Behind The Coup
Mahir Zeynalov One of the most frequent questions I am asked about Turkey is why so many people in that country believe in conspiracy theories? Even intellectuals buy and sell theories that are mostly...
View ArticleMonday Talk with Alp Aslandogan on Gulen Movement and Recent Coup Attempt in...
Vocal Europe: What sort of link does Alliance for Shared Values have with the movement in general and with Mr Gulen in particular? Alp Aslandogan: Alliance for Shared Values (AFSV) has six regional...
View ArticleTurkey's crackdown threatens German stability, Gulen followers fear
As storekeeper Cem Celik closes his small supermarket in one of Berlin's traditional Turkish neighbourhoods for the night, he is bracing himself for what lies ahead. For weeks, he has suffered threats...
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