Electoral fraud?
İhsan Yılmaz Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has turned the 30 March local elections into a sort of referendum. This seems to have two aspects. First, Erdoğan asserts that if his party is first in...
View ArticleAKP Faces crucial test in local elections
Dr. Marwan Kabalan* The March 30 local elections in Turkey are dealt with by most of the competing political parties as a make-or-break battle. Opposition forces, secular and religious, seem keen on...
View ArticleWhat else should Gülen say?
Adem Yavuz Arslan, Bugün Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and many Justice and Development Party (AK Party) members are talking about an operation to be launched against the Hizmet community after...
View ArticleIndividuals can force change
Lale Kemal Nelson Mandela has shown that individuals can enact change if their cause is noble and if it is for the good of society. Mandela, who passed away last year, sacrificed his life to end the...
View ArticleTurkey’s graft investigation and PM Erdoğan’s response
Kerim Balcı Turkey is passing through interesting times. Very recently the country has been shaken by two corruption investigations involving ministers from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK...
View Article'Latest developments increased recognition of Hizmet Movement globally'
Madiambal Diagne who is the editor-in-chief of a leading newspaper, Le Quotidien, in Senegal, stated that conflict between Hizmet Movement and Turkish government has paved way for Hizmet Movement to...
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Islamic scholar Gülen criticizes Turkish gov’t response to Gezi protests
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has criticized the Turkish government for a police crackdown on protesters during last year’s Gezi Park demonstrations in which a number of people were killed.“The...
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Gülen calls for respect of diversity in Turkey to end polarization
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has inspired the popular civic and social movement called Hizmet, called for the respect of diversity in Turkey, expressing his concern over growing polarization in...
View ArticleGerman gov't dismisses parliamentary question on Hizmet
The German federal government dismissed a parliamentary question about the faith-based Hizmet movement, underlining that the movement hasn't been involved in any illegal acts that threaten the...
View ArticleGerman government says Gülen movement not involved in any illegal acts
The German government, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, has said an extensive assessment of the organizations and foundations of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s movement in Germany failed to identify...
View ArticleTurkey's Erdogan Blocks Access to Twitter Accusing Gülen of Social Media Attacks
Divya Avasthy Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to "wipe out" Twitter from his country and imposed stiff curbs on the social media site. Erdogan apparently did not take kindly...
View ArticleFormer minister disputes existence of 'parallel state'
Ertuğrul Günay, former Justice and Development Party (AK Party) minister of culture and tourism, said on Thursday that there is no “parallel state” trying to destabilize Turkey, only an illegal...
View ArticleErdogan’s fight for control is bringing down democracy in Turkey
Gülçin Özkan* In an extraordinary move Turkey has banned Twitter, blocking access to the social networking site that has more than 10m users in the country. The ban has come just hours after the prime...
View ArticleErdoğan and Gül's futile fight against freedoms
İhsan Yılmaz By using the recent Internet law signed by President Abdullah Gül, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tried to silence Twitter. Gül had been warned about this, but he preferred not to...
View ArticleGülen says ballot box is not everything in a democracy
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has inspired the popular civic and social movement called Hizmet, said the ballot box is not everything, urging his followers to not stick to only one but to cast...
View Article‘Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons'
Aydoğan Vatandaş* After hinting that he may shut down Facebook and YouTube after the March 30 local elections, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has banned social media website Twitter in Turkey....
View ArticleErdoğan vows to ban this year's Turkish Olympiads
A day after he moved to ban popular social media network Twitter, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his government will not grant the organizers of the Turkish Olympiads permission to use any...
View ArticleHate speech in Netherlands and Turkey
Joost Lagendijk A few days after the local elections in the Netherlands that were held last Wednesday, the debate is not dominated by the countrywide landslide victory of the progressive liberals or...
View ArticleAK Party doesn't want votes from the Gülen movement
Hüseyin Gülerce I am of the impression that the majority of the people who compose the Gülen movement, also known as the Hizmet or service movement, have, since the time the Justice and Development...
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Kyrgyz Culture Minister: Turkish schools are of golden value to us
Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Sultan Rayev attended the Turkish Language Olympics’ eliminations in his country. Rayev in his statements said, “These schools are of golden value to us....
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