January 12, 2014

Probing Erdoğan's 'parallel state'

Özcan Keleş*

It has been a tumultuous few weeks in Turkey as a number of corruption investigations went public, implicating members of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government; the government's retaliatory measures are leading to a constitutional crisis as state prosecutors are being openly threatened and their orders ignored.

Turkish businesswomen building orphanage in Burundi

A group of Turkish businesswomen watched the foundation for an orphanage they funded being laid on Sunday in Burundi.

People happy in town Kimse Yok Mu helped build

Officials from Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) paid a visit to the town of İkbaliye in Pakistan, a newly built town inaugurated in September, as part of efforts to heal the wounds of a devastating flood that hit the country in 2010.The Kimse Yok Mu officials, who were received with affection in the region, carried out a sacrifice ceremony of 50 cattle with prayers. Afterwards, meat was distributed to about 100 families in İqbaliyye and the city of Lahore.