July 13, 2014

Yamanlar College student becomes world math champion

Osman Akar, a student from the private Yamanlar College in İzmir, has won a gold medal at the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which was held in Cape Town.

Erdoğan's witch hunt goes crazy

Şahin Alpay

The Radikal daily reported last Sunday that the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Department of the National Police Department had sent a secret directive to 30 provincial police departments ordering them to find out whether the Fethullah Gülen community had an armed force.

Erdoğmuş: The coup was staged by AK Party itself

Abdülbaki Erdoğmuş, spokesman for the Civil Policy Platform, has described the developments following a Dec. 17, 2013 anti-corruption operation in Turkey as “really a coup by the AK Party [Justice and Development Party] government” and pointed out that the effects of the unjust action taken by the government against the faith-based Hizmet movement are more severe than those of the aftermath of the Feb. 28, 1997 postmodern coup process.

Some FEM branches remove signs after municipality sets 3-day deadline

Several branches of the Fem prep school and one branch of the Anafen prep school on the Anatolian side of İstanbul have removed their signboards after the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality sent a notice telling the institutions to remove their adverts within three days.

Anti-Hizmet plot no more innocent than practices of coup periods

A government-sponsored plan to accuse the faith-based Hizmet movement of terrorism and working to overthrow the government, without providing any evidence, and a police order to initiate a probe into members of the movement as part of this plan have caused widespread outrage, with critics describing the plan as no more innocent than the wicked practices of coup periods.

New Turkey: A republic of fabricated crimes

This is not the first time Turkey is watching this movie. The people have seen it many times before. Five decades ago, many false reports alleging that students were murdered and cut into many pieces were made.

Minorities not buying plot to blame Christian murders on Hizmet

Representatives of Turkey's non-Muslim minorities say there is nothing credible about a recent attempt to blame the Hizmet movement for bloody acts committed targeting the country's religious minorities over the past decade.

Whose side is the president on?

Orhan Oğuz Gürbüz

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says: “If elected, I will not be an impartial president. There are two sides: The nation and the state. I will be a president who is on the side of the nation.”

‘Transparency doesn't have a place in Turkish political culture'

Transparency is not a concept which is accepted in Turkish political ethics. That is part of the reason why society has remained largely indifferent to the serious corruption allegations brought against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government, according to İştar Gözaydın, a professor of law and politics from İstanbul University's faculty of science and literature.