'Polling companies under pressure, media outlets don't inform society'
According to the general manager of the İstanbul-based Gezici Research Company, polling companies are under pressure to manipulate the results of their surveys to favor the government -- and the media...
View ArticlePM's discourse over 'no family, children' offensive, hurtful
Remarks by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeting an opposition politician and a renowned Islamic scholar that they have no respect for the idea of family as they have neither a family nor...
View ArticlePM Erdoğan once defended Hizmet, said it was Feb. 28 victim
Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has recently accused the faith-based Hizmet movement inspired by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen of cooperating with coup perpetrators during the Feb....
View ArticleUS uneasy at being used as pawn in Turkey's internal politics, says CHP
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies Aykan Erdemir and Faik Tunay have said that the US government feels uneasy at being used as a pawn in Turkey's internal politics. After meeting...
View ArticleLeaked tape reveals pool media's headline dictated by Erdoğans
A Twitter account leaked a new voice recording on Sunday afternoon, purportedly of a conversation between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his son Bilal a day after the Dec. 17 graft probe, in...
View ArticleWhy do I take sides
Şahin Alpay Some of my readers at home and also abroad ask me, “Why aren't you critical of the Gülen movement?” Some surprise me by asking, “Why don't you avoid taking sides in its conflict with Prime...
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Gülen's relatives express dismay over smear campaign against Islamic scholar
Dismayed, if not surprised, by the unabated smear campaign against distinguished Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, the scholar's relatives have expressed their disappointment and anxiety over...
View ArticleWhite House denies remarks about Gülen attributed to Obama
In an unusual statement, the White House has accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of misrepresenting the content of his phone conversation with US President Barack Obama on Feb. 19 regarding the...
View ArticleLessons from Dec. 17: Who is parallel?
Tamer Çetin* Since the corruption investigation initiated on Dec. 17, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his supporters have been claiming the existence of a “parallel structure” that is...
View ArticleDamn this sort of politics!
Ekrem Dumanlı The recent taped phone calls broadcast over the Internet last week confirmed the grave situation in relations between the media and politics. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a...
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Hizmet Movement discussed at Mexico’s UNAM
A group of Turkish, American and Mexican academics came together at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to discuss the Hizmet Movement’s progression from past to present. At the meeting...
View ArticleRevisiting society vis-à-vis politics
Erkan Toğuşlu* The political goals of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) for society over the last two years have emerged to be steps that seek to destroy the distinction between the...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan in three acts
Turan Kayaoglu* Like a figure in a Greek tragedy, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has fallen from a Jefferson-could-be into a Putin-wannabe, all within the swift span of a year. History tells us that...
View ArticleJapanese volunteers help Syrian refugees through Kimse Yok Mu
Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu collaborated with the Tokyo Camii and Turkish Cultural Center to help transport $77,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees residing in the southern city of Adana...
View ArticleErdoğan 'does not grasp' separation of powers, MEP says
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not seem to understand the importance of the separation of powers, a “cardinal principle of the Copenhagen criteria” that Turkey as a candidate to join the...
View ArticleThe simple definition of democracy
Paul Green* The simple definition of democracy is the following: “A form of government in which the people either directly or indirectly take part in governing.” A 21st-century democracy should contain...
View ArticleGulen calls for new constitution in Turkey
Fethullah Gulen, the Islamic preacher embroiled in a battle with the Turkish government that has shaken the country, has redoubled his criticism of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling for a new constitution...
View ArticleTurkey needs a new constitution to save its democracy
Fethullah Gulen*A small group in the executive is holding the country to ransom, says Fethullah Gulen. Trust and stability are fundamental to a nation’s development and to how the world perceives it....
View ArticleThe anti-thesis of radical Islam
Mümtazer Türköne Saudi Arabia's move, accompanied by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to withdraw ambassadors from Qatar is one of the important indicators of how the Arab Spring has started...
View ArticleWhy are AKP officials silent about Gülen?
Ahmet Hakan* - Why isn’t there an all-out declaration of war from every corner of the AKP against the Cemaat [Hizmet (Gulen) Movement] ? - Why is Erdoğan the only leader at the front of the war against...
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