İhsanoğlu says he is ‘against any kind of witch hunt'
The joint presidential hopeful of an alliance of opposition parties, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu has said that he is against any kind of witch hunt based on political or ideological accusations in the absence...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu holds iftar dinner for Bosnian orphans
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation recently held an exclusive event for the Bosnian orphans. Some 150 orphans from SOS village and Byelave Dormitory were received at Burch University in Sarajevo, where a special...
View ArticleErdoğan files another lawsuit against Today's Zaman editor-in-chief
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a legal complaint against the editor-in-chief of Today's Zaman, Bülent Keneş, over messages on the microblogging site Twitter, the state-run Anadolu news...
View Articleİpek lashes out at government media for recycling the same lies
Businessman Akın İpek has issued a strong rebuke to the Sabah and Takvim dailies, the two flagship government media outlets, who repeated in their Tuesday editions allegations that İpek is expanding...
View ArticleApartheid-like persecution against Hizmet intensifies
A story in the Taraf daily on Wednesday reporting that a secretive unit in the National Police Department has profiled businessmen and some 100,000 Hizmet-related companies all across Turkey has...
View ArticleGovernment creates enemies to survive
Lale Kemal Turkey has never had the fully independent and impartial judiciary necessary in any democratic state for justice to largely be done. The justice system, on the contrary, has been used and is...
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Bolu Municipality seals Hizmet-affiliated schools
The Bolu Municipality sealed two schools belonging to businessmen affiliated with the faith-based Hizmet movement on Friday. The municipality hung a sign in front of the sealed schools claiming that...
View ArticleOn Hizmet
Ali Bulaç Hizmet has obviously come to the fore on Turkey’s agenda. It has been accused of plotting against the government in the name of external powers, building a parallel state within the state,...
View Article‘Transparency doesn't have a place in Turkish political culture'
Transparency is not a concept which is accepted in Turkish political ethics. That is part of the reason why society has remained largely indifferent to the serious corruption allegations brought...
View ArticleWhose side is the president on?
Orhan Oğuz Gürbüz Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says: “If elected, I will not be an impartial president. There are two sides: The nation and the state. I will be a president who is on the side of...
View ArticleMinorities not buying plot to blame Christian murders on Hizmet
Representatives of Turkey's non-Muslim minorities say there is nothing credible about a recent attempt to blame the Hizmet movement for bloody acts committed targeting the country's religious...
View ArticleNew Turkey: A republic of fabricated crimes
This is not the first time Turkey is watching this movie. The people have seen it many times before. Five decades ago, many false reports alleging that students were murdered and cut into many pieces...
View ArticleAnti-Hizmet plot no more innocent than practices of coup periods
A government-sponsored plan to accuse the faith-based Hizmet movement of terrorism and working to overthrow the government, without providing any evidence, and a police order to initiate a probe into...
View ArticleSome FEM branches remove signs after municipality sets 3-day deadline
Several branches of the Fem prep school and one branch of the Anafen prep school on the Anatolian side of İstanbul have removed their signboards after the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality sent a...
View ArticleErdoğmuş: The coup was staged by AK Party itself
Abdülbaki Erdoğmuş, spokesman for the Civil Policy Platform, has described the developments following a Dec. 17, 2013 anti-corruption operation in Turkey as “really a coup by the AK Party [Justice and...
View ArticleErdoğan's witch hunt goes crazy
Şahin Alpay The Radikal daily reported last Sunday that the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Department of the National Police Department had sent a secret directive to 30 provincial police departments...
View ArticleYamanlar College student becomes world math champion
Osman Akar, a student from the private Yamanlar College in İzmir, has won a gold medal at the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which was held in Cape Town. Students from 106 countries...
View ArticleSomali students meet their families
The Somali students, who were sponsored by Kimse Yok Mu Foundation in their high school and university educations in Turkey following a scholarship exam in 2011, have now gone back their homes in...
View ArticleWho should be fearful?
Ekrem Dumanlı The claim is terrifying: A secretive unit, reportedly named the Cosmic Study Group (KÇG) -- within the National Police Department -- has held a meeting and profiled businessmen and some...
View ArticleBBP leader speaks out against plot targeting Hizmet movement
Grand Unity Party (BBP) Chairman Mustafa Destici spoke out against a government-sponsored plan to illegally investigate the faith-based Hizmet movement, saying his party has always opposed “dirty...
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