Gülen’s German collaborator, or the German slap?
Burak Bekdil“The common mission of all constitutional courts across the world is to protect and ensure human dignity, without discriminating against anyone on the basis of race, color, religion or...
View ArticleGülen's lawyer denies client facing arrest warrant or extradition
Nurullah Albayrak, lawyer for Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, has said that there is no criminal investigation, pending prosecution or any other judicial process ongoing in Turkey related to...
View ArticleDialogue advocacy group 'disturbed' by Erdoğan's harassment of Hizmet
The Alliance for Shared Values, an advocacy body that serves as a voice for organizations affiliated with the Hizmet movement in the US, has said it is "deeply disturbed" by Turkish Prime Minister...
View ArticleTUSKON denies mass resignations after corruption probe
Turkey's leading business conglomerate has denied reports of mass resignations following a recent corruption scandal, vowing to sue pro-government Yeni Şafak for fabricating false information. The...
View ArticleLatin American firms seek Turkey investments at TUSKON meet
A total of 80 businesspeople from 10 Latin American countries met in Turkey's Kayseri province on Tuesday to discuss investment and trade opportunities with local counterparts in a new “trade bridge”...
View ArticleNo investigation into Islamic scholar Gülen
While government newspapers and TV stations join a chorus saying that a criminal investigation has been launched into US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen over allegations of “staging a...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu providing assistance to Ebola victims in Guinea
Turkish aid organization Kimse Yok Mu has been supplying medical aid to Guinea since March, when the lethal Ebola virus struck the West African country, claiming 122 lives to date. With the help of...
View ArticleErdoğan's scapegoats: the West and Gülen
İhsan Yılmaz Last week I wrote that Erdoğan has a “Hobbesian-Machiavellian” state mentality and does not seem to be bound by any natural law, universal standards, human rights, international...
View ArticleTurkish opposition: Enquiry against Gülen politically motivated
Turkey's opposition parties across the political spectrum criticized reports that a criminal investigation was launched against Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, saying that the allegations are a...
View ArticleUS avoids commenting on Gülen's extradition
US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters at a press briefing on Wednesday that the US will not comment on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's expectation for Turkish Islamic scholar...
View ArticleCourts order corrections to gov't media stories on Hizmet
Several courts have ruled against untruthful stories published or broadcast by media institutions close to the government about the Hizmet movement, which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has...
View ArticleTurkish PM's Politically-motivated Crackdown on Law-abiding Citizens,...
Alliance for Shared Values, Press Statement NEW YORK, April 29, 2014 - We continue to be deeply disturbed by Prime Minister Erdogan's politically-motivated attempts to crackdown on law-abiding citizens...
View ArticleBlack propaganda websites granted legal shield
In a move that has been interpreted as providing legal protection to black propaganda websites, a public prosecutor in İstanbul speedily ruled that there was a lack of grounds for legal action to be...
View ArticleTurkish Extradition Request Could Strain Relations With US
ISTANBUL — The news that Turkey will officially request that the United States extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen is threatening to strain U.S.-Turkish relations. Ankara insists Gulen is...
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Archbishop Tutu receives Fethullah Gülen peace award
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was awarded the Fethullah Gülen Peace and Dialogue Award during the seventh annual Ubuntu Lecture and Dialogue Awards ceremony held...
View ArticleCHP Leader: Erdogan portrays Gulen Movement as enemy
Upon a question about a probe opened against Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is in self-exile in the U.S., Kılıçdaroğlu said if there is any structure that damages the state, it should be tried...
View ArticleNo perpetrators found but ‘parallel structure' behind wiretappings, PM argues
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asserted on Friday that the ‘parallel structure' is behind the illegal wiretapping of a meeting of high-ranking officials in the Foreign Ministry building, despite...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu offers a hand of compassion to Kyrgyz orphans
Dedicated to the fight poverty and destitution in 110 countries across the world, Kimse Yok Mu Foundation has recently signed a protocol of assistance to the orphan with the Kyrgyz Foundation of...
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In Turkey, how Germany’s president became ‘Germany's imam’
Mustafa Akyol On April 28–29, German President Joachim Gauck paid an official visit to Turkey that became more controversial than expected. The reason is that Gauck, who followed the usual diplomatic...
View ArticleDebunking Erdoğan's smear campaign against Gülen
Abdullah Bozkurt Acting as prosecutor, judge and executioner, Turkey's chief political Islamist, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has already convicted a well-respected Islamic scholar, Fethullah...
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