June 4, 2014

Silence of the (AKP) lambs

İhsan Yılmaz

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been constantly attacking the Hizmet movement for the last six months.

Government purges police officers who exposed massive corruption

The government has not stopped uprooting police departments as five more police officers from the İstanbul Police Department who were involved in uncovering massive government corruption have been permanently banned from the profession.

RTÜK issues fines to intimidate Samanyolu TV

The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK) has been harassing TV networks that it deems to be anti-government, and Samanyolu TV has become one of its major targets.

Gulen Movement Practice in the Netherlands

Martin van Bruinessen*

Cemal was 26 years old in 1989 when he arrived in the Netherlands in search of work. (1) He is a Kurd, and was born and grew up in Southeastern Turkey in a conservative and religious household.