Plan to vilify Hizmet for cold cases gears up
Laying responsibility for unsolved criminal cases on the Hizmet movement is picking up pace; the most recent example of this came on Monday, when former National Police Department Intelligence Unit...
View ArticlePM Erdoğan confesses to creating ‘super judges' for anti-Hizmet plot
Remarks by the prime minister regarding plans to assign “super judges” to tackle a looming operation against the faith-based Hizmet movement have led legal experts to comment that the remarks are...
View ArticlePolice chief says Hizmet operation to come before Eid
Former head of the İstanbul Police Department's financial crimes unit Yakup Saygılı has said he has heard rumors that the Justice and Development (AK Party) government is planning to launch an...
View ArticleGülen lawyers file complaint against prosecutors over wrongful probe
Lawyers representing Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have filed a complaint against two İstanbul prosecutors who are conducting an investigation into their client, accusing them of violating procedural...
View Article'There is still a way out of this impasse.'
Kemal Karpat Criticism of the AK Party is ruining its legacy. It is a case where they are ruining in a few years what they built over the last decade. There is still a way out of this impasse. And...
View ArticleErdoğan's parallel bicycle gets rotten
Selçuk Gültaşlı Because he believes that the lies about the so-called "parallel state" are a useful tool to cover up the corruption charges, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan keeps riding this...
View ArticlePre-dawn operation part of psychological war against Hizmet
A number of malpractices witnessed during the pre-dawn operation against dozens of police officers as part of an investigation into the Hizmet movement have turned the operation into...
View ArticlePM Erdoğan admits July 22 operation carried out on his instructions
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan admitted on Tuesday that an operation staged on July 22 against dozens of high-ranking police officials who had carried out the Dec. 17 bribery and corruption...
View ArticlePolice officials who carried out graft operation detained in raids
As many as 100 high-ranking members of the police force were detained in a large-scale operation which began late Monday night/early Tuesday morning in over 20 provinces as part of the government's...
View ArticleTotalitarian siege
Orhan Kemal Cengiz Let me write down some of the recent developments in Turkey: * A parliamentary commission which was established to investigate corruption allegations leveled at ex-ministers cannot...
View ArticleErdoğan’s war against Hizmet: Step by step
İsmail Mesut Sezgin* Turkish prosecutors carried out a number of arrests and raids on the morning of 17th December 2013 as part of a series of on-going corruption investigations implicating a number of...
View ArticleThe Erdoğan mafia
İhsan Yılmaz Turkey is now run by a mafia. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is at the top of this organization. He has created parallel financial, social, religious and legal structures to maintain...
View ArticleThailand’s Lanna princess hails Turkish schools
Thailand’s princess of Lanna Chao Duangduan hailed the Turkish schools in her country saying she is proud of them. The traditional iftar dinner by the Turkish schools in Thailand brought together...
View ArticleErdoğan's 'non-precious' loneliness
Ali Halit Aslan Civilians and innocent people are the most vulnerable victims of wars. A total of 298 innocent people were killed in a missile attack on a Malaysian aircraft in its route over Ukrainian...
View ArticleAnti-police operation is gov't attempt to take revenge for graft probe
Various segments of society have continued to speak out against a government-backed operation that has resulted in the detention of over 100 members of the police force. Republican People's Party (CHP)...
View ArticleAssociations expect top court to prevent closure of prep schools
Representatives from prep school unions have said they don't believe a government pledge to close prep schools or convert them into private schools can be fulfilled, adding that they expect the...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu Iftar in Kyrgyzstan
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation has recently held an iftar dinner in the capital city Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The dinner at Sarmerden restaurant saw the attendance of some 300 guests. The Kyrgyz people expressed...
View ArticleKimse Yok Mu’s Ramadan packages for Filipino families
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation, in cooperation with the participating organizations and volunteers, keep bringing in Ramadan’s abundance to those in need around the world. 30 thousand Filipinos faced famine...
View ArticleNo better gift for Nigerien orphans
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation, which has been giving off Ramadan joy with the slogan “Fill up your umbrella of mercy with the abundance of sharing” in 110 countries on 5 continents, lifted up this time the...
View ArticleUganda: Makerere University to teach Turkish
NILE Dialogue Platform, the Ugandan subsidiary of Gülen Movement, a Turkish social movement whose teachings lay emphasis on interfaith and intercultural dialogue is set to support the introduction of...
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