Gulen, a Secret Cardinal?
Walter Russell Mead Conspiracy theories in Turkey, often a feature of politics, are reaching new levels of creativity: An indictment prepared by an İzmir prosecutor against individuals who were...
View ArticleTurkey downplays risks from Gulen-linked companies as new firm seized
Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Tuesday that companies linked to a group blamed for a failed coup posed a risk of up to 5 billion lira ($1.70 billion) to Turkish banks but that the state seizure...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen on Israel and Jews
Henry Srebrnik* The reclusive Turkish cleric who heads Turkey’s influential Hizmet (Service) movement has become front-page news since the abortive coup in Turkey. Fethullah Gulen, who lives in...
View ArticleAKP delegation travels to the U.S. for talks on Gülen extradition
A delegation from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government travelled to the US on Tuesday to discuss the extradition of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of by...
View ArticleTurkish Academicians Call for Solidarity Amid Post-Coup Attempt Witch Hunt
The failed July 15 coup attempt in Turkey has given way to a massive state investigation, thousands of arbitrary arrests and a slew of dismissals in the state sector, mainly from military and...
View ArticleTables Have Turned for Some Media in Turkish Crackdown
Bulent Kenes is a hunted man. He was once one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most strident champions, editor of a top English-language daily at the forefront of government-backed efforts to take...
View ArticleOttoman march accompanies demolition of wall built by İpek family
A wall and some arbors that were allegedly illegally erected by Melek İpek, mother of Akın İpek, a businessman in a self-imposed exile in Britain, were demolished by municipal teams accompanied by an...
View ArticleErdoğan calls on US to either extradite or detain Gülen
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the United States administration to either extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen or detain him, despite not having submitted any evidence to the...
View ArticleTurkey Detains Journalists, Politician, Pollster as Post-putsch Purge Proceeds
Turkish authorities detained journalists, a politician and a pollster on Wednesday and issued arrest warrants for another 105 people over suspected links to a U.S.-based Islamic cleric blamed for a...
View ArticleTurkey’s Brain Drain and the Disappearing Academic Freedom
Hakan Saglam The name you read above is not my real name: it is a pseudonym. The names I will mention below are not authentic, either. Unfortunately, there are various good reasons for that. First, the...
View ArticleWhy on earth does a Hizmet follower flee Turkey?
Hardly a day passes lately without a letter from those who have fled Turkey amid widespread purge that was launched following the July 15 military coup attempt. What follows is a translation of a...
View ArticleThe Process Behind Turkey’s Proposed Extradition of Fethullah Gülen
Michael Werz and Max Hoffman* It is hard to overstate the gravity of what happened in Turkey during the failed July 15 coup attempt. More than 270 people were killed and thousands wounded in clashes...
View ArticleDutch police detain second Turkish man for threatening Erdoğan critics
Dutch police on Wednesday detained a second Turkish man, a supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on suspicion of death threats and hate speech made against Erdoğan critics in the Netherlands....
View Article“Are we about to see a pogrom against Christians in Turkey?”
Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith Our sharp-eyed editor, Luke Coppen, has discovered two stories on the Internet about Turkey, in the wake of its recent coup attempt, that are so astonishing that they demand...
View ArticleWhy Erdogan Snubbed Biden
Philip Giraldi* What is going on in Turkey right now reminds me very much of the last few scenes in the first Godfather movie, where Michael Corleone is settling all of the Family’s outstanding...
View ArticleUnder Erdogan oppression, autocracy rules in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt* A day after Turkey’s notoriously repressive regime led by an autocrat president issued sweeping arrest warrants for 42 journalists on July 25 on all sorts of trumped-up charges, I...
View ArticleCHP receives more than 3,000 complaints over Gülen probes, state of emergency
More than 3,000 people have applied to the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), complaining about rights violations they faced during the probes into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization...
View ArticleA conspiracy so immense: Turkey’s post-coup crackdown has become a witch-hunt
Istar Gozaydin, a professor at Gediz University in Izmir, felt the sting of Turkey’s purges earlier than most. She was fired days after July’s failed coup, not by the government but by her own...
View ArticleECJ: Turkey must separate coup plotters from Gülen employees
Turkey must produce clear evidence in pursuing participants in a failed coup and avoid targeting teachers and journalists simply because they worked for firms run by the Muslim cleric Ankara portrays...
View Article‘Truth has come, and falsehood has departed,’ reads Quran verse hung on...
A private school affiliated with the Gülen movement in Bursa province has been turned into a religious vocational school – known as imam-hatip schools –, after being seized by the government, and...
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