Witch hunt in Europe
Emre Uslu Political madness in Turkey is at its peak. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not even refrain from using the term “witch hunt” against the Gülen followers. When Erdoğan and his circle...
View ArticleEthiopian PM: It is an honor to work with TUSKON
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has said the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON), one of Turkey's leading business confederations, has contributed positively...
View ArticleThe tragic end of the witch hunt
Ekrem Dumanlı How could government yes-men do nothing when the prime minister of a country launches a witch hunt? Naturally, yes-men and low-caliber meddlers sprang up after the prime minister launched...
View ArticleGezi's anniversary and Erdoğan's disproportionate politics
Mümtazer Türköne Disproportionate force refers to the use of excessive force by security units; likewise, we can also speak of the disproportionate use of politics by powerful politicians against...
View ArticleErdoğan raising new army of political Islamists
Abdullah Bozkurt Just like the recently passed intelligence legislation that Turkish spymaster Hakan Fidan lobbied hard for with Islamist politicians, including the Turkish president and prime...
View ArticleGYV awards peace projects in İstanbul ceremony
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV), which will make a donation of $50,000 to international peace projects developed to prevent conflict in the world and present solutions for them, held a...
View ArticleGovernment drags military into politics
Lale Kemal Ironically, it is the same Turkish government that curbed the political power of the military, thanks to reforms in 2003 and 2004, that has now been taking measures to drag it back into...
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"Hizmet Movement making tremendous contributions to Muslim culture"
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 1 (Full text)Jihad TurkMy name is Jihad Turk.** And I am president of Bayan Claremont, an Islamic graduate school at Claremont School of Theology. I have a very positive...
View ArticleWitch-hunts in Europe
Ali Yurttagül Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's defense, with his unique self-confidence, of his discourse, which has undertones of a witch-hunt against the Fethullah Gülen movement, has not...
View ArticleGulen Movement Practice in the Netherlands
Martin van Bruinessen* Cemal was 26 years old in 1989 when he arrived in the Netherlands in search of work. (1) He is a Kurd, and was born and grew up in Southeastern Turkey in a conservative and...
View ArticleRTÜK issues fines to intimidate Samanyolu TV
The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK) has been harassing TV networks that it deems to be anti-government, and Samanyolu TV has become one of its major targets. Ahead of the March 30...
View ArticleGovernment purges police officers who exposed massive corruption
The government has not stopped uprooting police departments as five more police officers from the İstanbul Police Department who were involved in uncovering massive government corruption have been...
View ArticleSilence of the (AKP) lambs
İhsan Yılmaz Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been constantly attacking the Hizmet movement for the last six months. Almost everyday, he mentions the word "Pennsylvania," which is known to mean...
View ArticleNigeria: Post-2015 Agenda - Addressing the Inadequacies in Women's Rights
Women rights activists and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) recently gathered in Istanbul, Turkey to address the failures of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on the rights of women, and...
View ArticleHizmet and March 30 elections: What happened? (1)
Haluk A. Savaş* This piece reviews the political and social position of a community referred to as the Hizmet movement -- which has been involved in social service since the 1970s as a social movement,...
View ArticleTurkey's never-healing illness
Sadık Çınar… By late 2010 the AKP became very open to Modernist ideology contamination in order to secure its power in the long term. The ruling people of the AKP and especially Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
View ArticleHizmet and March 30 elections: What happened? (2)
Haluk A. Savaş* The people who were unable to acquire representation in the state because of the domination and influence of the pro-Western or pro-Republican People's Party (CHP) bureaucrats and...
View ArticleThe [Gulen] movement was a curtain
Yonca Kaya Şahin When the AK Party came in power in 2002, it lacked the qualified staff it needed to rule. The movement stepped in at this point and served the party`s need. Actually the need was met...
View ArticleCourt wants up to 11 years for Samanyolu TV director
A prosecutor has filed charges against a director of Samanyolu TV accusing him of “insulting” and “slandering” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and fomenting “grudges and hostility among the...
View ArticleTurkey’s intra-Islamic witch hunt
Mustafa Akyol“If this is called a witch hunt, then yes, we perform a witch hunt,” said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a May 10 “consultation and assessment meeting” of his Justice and...
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