Turkey seizes 18 companies of Akın İpek worth 10 billion dollars
An Ankara court ordered on Thursday the seizure of all assets of Akın İpek, including 18 companies that worth over 10 billion dollars, İpek wrote in his personal Twitter account. Ankara 4th Penal Court...
View ArticlePresident Erdoğan confesses anti-Gülen witch-hunt has gone off track
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged that a witch-hunt he launched against the faith-based Gülen movement has gotten out of control and that people who have nothing to do with the movement...
View ArticleTurkish newspaper 'Zaman' shuts down in Germany amid 'threats'
"Zaman" would stop publishing its print edition in Germany by November 30 to avoid "harm to staff or subscribers," Süleyman Bag, a member of the paper's management, told German broadcaster hr on...
View ArticleTurkey Coup: Gulen Is Not A Terrorist
The G20 meeting which held in China early this week created a platform for the U.S. President Barrack Obama and his counterpart President Recep Erdogan of Turkey to meet for the first time after the...
View ArticleThe cleric, the coup and the conspiracy
Nahal Toosi At a spacious retreat in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, an elderly Muslim scholar named Fethullah Gülen spends much of his day at rest, in prayer or receiving well-wishers. It would be a...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen: ‘I don’t have any regrets’
Nahal Toosi Fethullah Gülen, the Muslim cleric that the Turkish government blames for the recent attempted coup, has long been reclusive, rarely granting interviews. But in the wake of the accusations...
View ArticleAmbassador says US having difficulty in seeing clear criterion in anti-Gülen...
US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has said the United States administration is having difficulty in understanding whether a clear criterion is being used by the Turkish government in operations against...
View ArticleQuestions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup
Özcan Keleş* Gareth Jenkins once criticized Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of ‘projective’ rather than deductive reasoning, working backwards from the...
View ArticleMan gets prison sentence, fine after attack on Gülen-linked institutions in...
A 28-year-old man of Turkish origin has been handed down a prison sentence of eight months and a fine of 23,000 euros by a French court after he attacked several institutions affiliated with the...
View ArticleLessons from the UK’s Chilcot Report for Turkey’s post-coup response
Ozcan Keles On September 24, 2002, the UK government published a fifty page dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction which was discussed in Parliament on the same day. The British Prime Minister...
View ArticleAnkara mayor claims US, Gülen plan artificial earthquake in İstanbul
Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek claimed in series of tweets on Saturday that external powers, including the US, are planning to trigger an artificial earthquake in İstanbul in cooperation with FETÖ, an...
View Article‘We won’t stop the witch-hunt’ AKP parliamentary group deputy chair says
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Çanakkale deputy and parliamentary group deputy chairman Bülent Turan has said the AKP government will not stop a witch-hunt in the state bureaucracy for the...
View ArticleDespite Turkey’s Horrible Abuses, CAIR Continues to Shill for Ankara
Steven Emerson* A delegation from Turkey’s parliament came to Washington last week, in order to make the case for extraditing Fethullah Gülen — an opposition figure living in self-imposed exile in...
View ArticleTurkish coup d’état: a failed test for the EU
Marta Cioci* In the aftermath of the abortive Putsch orchestrated by the Turkish military, the EU finds itself in a slippery position in the attempt to offset its geopolitical concerns against the...
View ArticleEffort to Force Closure of Gülen-Inspired Schools Falling Flat in Eurasia
As part of a wide-ranging clampdown in the aftermath of the failed July coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s administration has urged countries in Eurasia to shut down schools associated with...
View ArticleFilipino-Turkish educational group gives out beef amid terror threats
Even with reports of terror threats in Davao City, a Filipino-Turkish educational group pursued their beef-sharing event on Monday, September 12, to celebrate peace and unity in the city. Integrative...
View ArticleNobel laureate Pamuk: Post-coup Turkey sliding into terror regime
Prominent Turkish novelist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature, Orhan Pamuk, has criticized the government's large-scale crackdown in the aftermath of the failed July 15 coup, warning...
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US Unlikely to ‘Speed Up’ Gulen’s Extradition to Turkey
Turkey has formally requested that the U.S. government extradite Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen from the state of Pennsylvania where he has lived in self-imposed exile for 17 years. Ankara has accused...
View ArticleErdoğan’s expat supporters preventing Gülenists from entering mosques
With threats against followers of the Gülen movement — also called Hizmet — becoming common practice among supporters, particularly in Europe, of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, some European...
View ArticleThe anomaly of war
Burak Bekdil The anomaly of war, French essayist Emile Auguste Chartier wrote, is that the best men get themselves killed while crafty men find their chances to govern in a manner contrary to justice....
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