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Turkey-Japan Media Forum kicks off in İstanbul
The Turkey-Japan Media Forum, which is organized by the Medialog Platform -- an industry advocacy group connected to the İstanbul-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) -- kicked off in...
View ArticleDiscrimination hits education hard
Discrimination in education has become more visible with the start of this academic year as some private schools affiliated with the Hizmet movement, a faith-based social movement inspired by Islamic...
View ArticleFamily and Social Policy Ministry profiling own personnel
According to documents acquired by Today's Zaman, the Ministry of Family and Social Policy has added another level to illegal profiling practices of the Turkish state by giving people within the...
View ArticleState agency criticized for speculative Bank Asya report
A week after a speculative report regarding the fate of a leading Islamic lender, Turkey's state-run news agency continues to receive criticism for targeting a private entity at the expense of breaking...
View ArticleAK Party crimes against humanity taken to ICC
The murder of 34 Kurdish civilians in 2011 by a Turkish fighter jet, the treatment of protesters who took part in anti-government protests last year and a relentless war being waged by Turkish...
View ArticleGovernment pressures inspectors to investigate 'parallel state'
After allegations emerged on Sunday that bureaucrats within the Ministry of Family and Social Policy with purported links to the Hizmet movement had been illegally profiled under “code 111,” it is now...
View ArticleSupercut of Erdoğan insulting Hizmet movement goes viral
A video uploaded onto YouTube depicting a compilation of insults and phrases that are tantamount to hate speech uttered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against the faith-based Hizmet movement has...
View ArticleWithout any justification, signboards of Hizmet-affiliated school removed
Signboards of a prep school which is associated with Hizmet Movement, inspired by Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, were removed by municipality officials without offering any justification in Balıkesir...
View ArticleWhy the ruling power cannot legally do away with the movement
Sercan Zorbozan* If it is interpreted in accordance with daily incidents and developments, the law loses its objectivity. It is affected by the points of view of those who oversee these incidents, and...
View ArticlePresident Erdoğan is committing a crime
Turhan Bozkurt The Law on Banking is very clear. Under Article 74 of the law, any action or comment that may damage the prestige of a bank is a crime. Those who violate this article can be faced with a...
View ArticleBank Asya assures it fulfills obligations despite pressure
Private lender Bank Asya said on Tuesday that it will continue to fulfill its legal obligations to its depositors and shareholders despite a ruthless campaign against it aimed at undermining depositor...
View ArticleRift between gov't and president grows over targeting of Bank Asya
Cracks are growing between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the government of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu due to the president's personal vendetta targeting Bank Asya conflicting with the...
View ArticleBank Asya resumes trade after ban lifted
Turkey's stock exchange on Monday lifted the ban on trading Bank Asya shares that it imposed on Aug. 7 amid a smear campaign conducted by pro-government media outlets about the ownership status of the...
View ArticleTurkish schools praised by Uganda's education minister
Ugandan Education Minister Jessica Alupo commented on the success of Galaxy International Schools in Uganda during a recent trip to Turkey. Alupo stressed that the five Galaxy International Schools,...
View ArticleBank Asya vows to see off "smear campaign" amid Turkish power struggle
Reuters The head of Turkey's Bank Asya has vowed to strengthen its capital base and see off what he described as a systematic campaign to undermine it, warning the attack on his bank could sour foreign...
View Article'A president trying to sink a bank'
Günay Hilal Aygün Following a months-long government-backed smear campaign against Turkey's largest Islamic lender, Bank Asya, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan personally targeted the bank in a recent...
View Article'Turkey may face serious financial crisis due to attacks on Bank Asya'
A former high-level financial official has warned, in light of claims that a number of Turkish banks are in difficulty, that a smear campaign orchestrated by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against Bank...
View ArticleReactions mount to Erdoğan-led smear campaign against Bank Asya
Intensified attacks led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his associates against Turkey's largest Islamic lender, Bank Asya, have produced another series of reactions in Turkey, with the main...
View ArticleWitch hunt extends to publishing houses
An ongoing campaign against groups believed to be critical of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has stretched to the publishing sector, with the government -- albeit covertly -- punishing...
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Gülen condemns ISIL atrocities in ads in leading newspapers
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who resides in Pennsylvania, placed ads in leading US newspapers on Wednesday to condemn the atrocities of the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
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