CHP deputy asks interior minister about profiling of companies
A member of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has submitted a written parliamentary question demanding to know if 100,000 companies have been profiled by the National Police...
View ArticleYet another ‘terrorist organization' delusion
Orhan Erdemli* One of the main topics of the country's agenda last week was an order sent by the Bureau of Crimes against the Constitutional Order at the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office to the police...
View ArticleUgandan ambassador calls for Turkish investment in his country
Uganda’s ambassador to Turkey, Agara Olwa, encouraged the Konya businessmen to invest in Uganda. Konya’s Active Businessmen and Industrialists (AKTISAD) hosted the ambassador at a meeting. “Come invest...
View ArticleProsecution against Hizmet movement (4)
Gültekin Avcı, Bugün In this piece, I continue to list illegal practices by the prosecution that aims to portray the faith-based Hizmet movement as a terrorist organization. Illegally acquired...
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'Hizmet Movement is crucial in contemporary Islam'
Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 3 (Full text)Prof. Dr. Amir Hussain My name is Amir Hussain**. I’m a professor at Loyola Marymount University, which is the Jesuit, the Catholic University in Los Angeles. And I...
View ArticleUnion allegedly helps with profiling of civil servants
The Civil Servants' Trade Union (Memur-Sen), the largest civil servants' union in Turkey, has been involved in an alleged government plan to profile employees in public offices, Turkish media has...
View ArticleCHP: Will Fatih College's seized land be given to TÜRGEV?
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) asked the government on Tuesday about the veracity of rumors claiming that land formerly belonging to Fatih College will be handed over to the...
View ArticleCeremony canceled after Gülen's relative wins short film contest
The award ceremony of a short film contest organized by the Ministry of Education has been canceled after the contest was won by Seleme Gülen, a relative of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen,...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu reaches out to refugee families in Afghanistan
International charity association Kimse Yok Mu delivered food packages to the Afghan people living in a refugee camp in Afghanistan capital Kabul during the holy month of Ramadan. Arriving at the camp,...
View ArticleExperts voice concerns about Turkish democracy to US committee
A group of academics and businessmen testified on Tuesday before the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats in a hearing on “The Future of Turkish Democracy” and...
View ArticleTanzanian Minister hails Turkey for continued support in education
The Turkish government has been applauded for tremendous efforts in maintaining bilateral cooperation with Tanzania in areas of education and social services aiming at reducing poverty in the local...
View ArticleRwanda: Sector Reforms and Exposure Will Attract More Foreign Investments
Adem Sanliturk is the Secretary General of the Rwanda Active Businessmen Association (RWABA), an association that is directly linked to Tuskon, a confederation of Turkish businessmen and...
View ArticleAward ceremony cancellation on Parliament’s agenda
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu spoke in Parliament on Wednesday about the cancellation of the award ceremony of a short film contest after the...
View ArticleAK Party municipality cancels Hizmet-affiliated dorm's permit
The Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) mayor of Hendek, a district of Sakarya province, has canceled a building permit that it had issued three months previously for a new student dormitory...
View Articleİhsanoğlu describes witch hunt against public servants as cruelty
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the presidential candidate jointly nominated by the two major opposition parties, has described an ongoing witch hunt pursued by the government against public servants believed to...
View ArticleZaman Arabic aims to be online paper of reference
Zaman Arabic, a new online newspaper from the Zaman Media Group, was launched on Monday in an effort to provide news about Turkey to the Arab world in its own language.Zaman Arabic aims to share the...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu lends helping hand to Guinean families during Ramadan
The Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) has been providing aid to 3,000 families in the African country of Guinea during the holy month of Ramadan and has also been organizing iftars...
View ArticleMHP's Yeniçeri: What is being done to Hizmet is genocide
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Ankara deputy Özcan Yeniçeri has lashed out at the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government for embarking on a battle against the faith-based Hizmet...
View ArticleLowdown on the 'parallel state' rhetoric
Cafer Solgun Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has for some time been wrestling with a "structure" whose very existence is questionable. Its existence is questionable because no such organization...
View Article3 reasons why the government cannot finish off the Hizmet movement
Oğuzhan Tekin Turkey has been passing through a kind of interim regime under the reign of the Justice and Development (AK Party) government since the Dec. 17 corruption and bribery operations. The...
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