June 25, 2014

İstanbul Municipality removes pro-Hizmet prep school signs

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) removed the exterior signage of the Fem dershane, a private exam preparatory school, operating in İstanbul's Mecidiyeköy district early on Wednesday on the grounds that the school had violated the municipality's advertising regulations.

Ala does not deny anti-Hizmet plot, insults reporter instead

Interior Minister Efkan Ala, when asked on Wednesday to comment on an alleged secret plot devised by the government against members of the faith-based Hizmet movement, avoided giving a direct response and chose to insult the reporter who asked the question instead.

JWF organized a side-event at UN in Geneva

The Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), in partnership with Dialog-Institut and the Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Finland and the UK, put its signature to another successfully organized conference on Wednesday June 11th in the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland.