PakTurk School lauded for serving a wide range of students
Minister of State for Education and Interior Engineer Balighur Rahman has honored nine students of PakTurk School for winning medals in various international competitions bringing pride and a good name...
View ArticleInvestigation or political plot?
Emre Uslu Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials have been arguing that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was wiretapped. Back in 2013, Erdoğan, speaking on a TV program, revealed that the...
View ArticleInability to generate values
Ekrem Dumanlı Those who cannot generate values will consume up existing ones. This is because generating values is a demanding task which requires profound contemplation. In addition, it entails labor...
View ArticlePlot against Hizmet a scandal, MHP's Vural says
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Oktay Vural said on Monday that a plot initiated by the government against the faith-based Hizmet group is a scandalous move....
View ArticleLawyer: Gov't, Ergenekon unite forces in plot against Hizmet
Erdal Doğan, a co-plaintiff in the Zirve trial, has argued that the government and the Ergenekon terrorist organization have agreed to unite forces in a plot against the faith-based Hizmet movement....
View ArticleInquisition conspiracy
Mümtazer Türköne The question motion İdris Naim Şahin submitted to Parliament for Interior Minister Efkan Ala to answer contains serious accusations which would normally urge the government to resign....
View ArticleAbant Platform: Turkey has lost its direction in a troubled region
Participants in the 33rd Abant Platform, which is taking place in the province of Bolu, have agreed that Turkey has lost its direction in both domestic and foreign policy, generating concern over its...
View ArticleFinal declaration of the 33rd Abant Platform: "Turkey's direction"
Participants in the 33rd Abant Platform, which ended on Sunday in the northwestern town of Akçakoca, agreed that Turkey has lost its direction in both its domestic and foreign policy, saying the way to...
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JWF organized a side-event at UN in Geneva
The Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), in partnership with Dialog-Institut and the Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Finland and the UK, put its signature to another successfully organized...
View ArticleAla does not deny anti-Hizmet plot, insults reporter instead
Interior Minister Efkan Ala, when asked on Wednesday to comment on an alleged secret plot devised by the government against members of the faith-based Hizmet movement, avoided giving a direct response...
View Articleİstanbul Municipality removes pro-Hizmet prep school signs
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) removed the exterior signage of the Fem dershane, a private exam preparatory school, operating in İstanbul's Mecidiyeköy district early on Wednesday on the...
View ArticlePM Erdoğan is a schizophrenic, according to MHP's Büyükataman
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan most likely suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, according to Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Secretary-General İsmet Büyükataman, who also said that the...
View ArticleAK Party brings on another round of poll tax
Yusuf Keleş* As we enter this summer season, in the run-up to both Ramadan and the holiday that comes after it, it may surprise some to hear that, in fact, tax auditing becomes more intense during this...
View ArticlePurge at civil bureaucracy rings alarm bells
Barçın Yinanç“Nothing has worked since Dec. 17 [2013]. We just cannot have anything moving,” a business friend of mine told me, complaining about the ministry reshuffles, which were part of the...
View ArticleThe difference between Putin and Erdoğan
Orhan Kemal Cengiz The other day I was talking to a group of foreigners. After having tried to illustrate the dark side of Turkish democracy and worsening conditions, I said, “However, Erdoğan is not...
View Articleİstanbul Fem prep school takes sign removal to court
The Fem prep school, which helps students prepare for Turkey's national university entrance exam, has filed a complaint against the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality with the İstanbul Prosecutor's...
View ArticleHizmet without borders
Sevgi Akarçeşme* Even for perpetual pessimists, it was impossible not to hope for a world where peaceful coexistence can exist while watching the finale of the 12th Language and Culture Festival,...
View ArticleGülen's lawyer: Profiling order against Hizmet must be called off
Nurullah Albayrak, a lawyer of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, said Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Serdar Coşkun must halt an alleged secret plot devised by the government against members of...
View ArticlePrime minister's son-in-law entering prep school business
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak has founded a new company which states in its foundation charter that its purpose is to "open exam prep schools and additional...
View ArticleHomo Imam Hatipus or Homo Dindar Nesilus of Kemalo-Islamists
İhsan Yılmaz Regular readers of this column will know that I have repeatedly written about how the Kemalist power elite has been trying to consolidate their nationalist and secularist status quo by...
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