Diverging points between AKP and Hizmet movement: Kurdish question
Mustafa Demir* In his recent article in Der Spiegel, Maximilian Popp tries to analyze recent tension between the Hizmet movement and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Turkey. There are a...
View ArticleBusinessmen voice frustration over smear campaign against Hizmet
The Akşehir Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (AKSİAD) has condemned an ongoing defamation campaign being conducted against the Hizmet movement inspired by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah...
View ArticleDuff: So easy for some Turkish media to misreport
British Liberal member of the European Parliament (EP) Andrew Duff has reacted to the Turkish Sabah daily's report on his interview on the Gülen movement, accusing Sabah of misreporting what he said on...
View ArticleHow hateful discourse manipulates our perception
The government has gone too far in its efforts to manipulate people's perceptions, which were effective only for the lower-middle and lower class of society. The project to manipulate people's...
View ArticleWatson: My expressions were twisted by Sabah
Sir Graham Watson, one of the most veteran members of the European Parliament, has said he is very disappointed in the way the Sabah daily twisted his words on the Hizmet movement. British Member of...
View ArticleGülen's lawyer to sue daily Sabah over black propaganda
As the government-controlled Sabah daily continues to distort facts and fabricate stories in an effort to depict Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as being involved in acts against the...
View ArticleKurdish and German angles of Erdoğan-Gülen rift*
Murat Yetkin Yes, there is a Kurdish angle in the rift between Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan and Fethullah Gülen, his once-ally moderate Islamist scholar and there is even a Germany dimension....
View ArticleYoung man caught stealing copies of daily Zaman
A young man was caught red-handed in İstanbul on Saturday while stealing Zaman newspapers left by distributors in subscribers' mail boxes. The man, who claimed to be the son of the Justice and...
View ArticlePKK and AKP: Conjoined twins
Emre Uslu The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has opened many fronts in recent years to fight against liberals, the Gülen movement and some of its former supporters, such as Menzil group. Recently,...
View ArticleWhen the masks have fallen
Ekrem Dumanlı All these claims of a parallel state are nothing but fiction, and this country is being dragged into a party state. In addition to the bureaucrats who have been appointed by the...
View ArticleThe impact of corruption on elections
Abdullah Bozkurt The corruption scandals that have plagued the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and implicated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and people around him since Dec....
View Article‘PM’s demonization of all opponents cause for worry on democracy’
The president of the US-based Freedom House, David J. Kramer, said that the increased harshness of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government's attacks on any group that opposes it and its...
View ArticleWhat did you do, if Hizmet did everything?
Nuh Gönültaş, Bugün To cover up claims of corruption, Turkey has taken a position in the middle of a triangle between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and...
View ArticleState Islam versus civic Islam
Mümtazer Türköne There is something unconvincing in the war the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has been waging against the Hizmet (Gülen) movement. The AK Party is deliberately escalating...
View ArticleGYV calls on President Gül to investigate interference with judiciary
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), whose honorary chairman is Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, has stated that a hate crime is being carried out against the Hizmet movement in Turkey...
View ArticlePrime minister's inconsistencies raise eyebrows
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan frequently alludes to how he is a politician who stands behind his words and how what he has done in the past is an assurance of what he will do in the future, but...
View ArticleReuters: Turkish government fights graft scandal with probe of 'parallel state'
Turkey is launching a criminal investigation into an alleged "parallel state" backed by a U.S.-based cleric and accused by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of orchestrating a corruption scandal to unseat...
View ArticleFethullah Gülen files libel case against PM Erdoğan
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen Hocaefendi has filed libel suit against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for remarks Erdoğan made about him in his recent speechs, which Gülen's lawyer says...
View ArticleTurkey’s once-worldly aims falter, even close allies concerned
Michael Shank* From a political perspective, defending Turkey's blend of political Islam and neoliberal economic policies was not terribly difficult a decade ago. After all, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleWhy are they calling Fethullah Gülen back?
Ahmet Hakan Not a day goes by without someone from the government calling on Fethullah Gülen to come back. I am very curious. What would they do if Fethullah Gülen comes back? Will they greet him in...
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