July 16, 2014

Kimse Yok Mu lends helping hand to Guinean families during Ramadan

The Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody There) has been providing aid to 3,000 families in the African country of Guinea during the holy month of Ramadan and has also been organizing iftars (fast-breaking dinners) in various parts of the country each evening.

Zaman Arabic aims to be online paper of reference

Zaman Arabic, a new online newspaper from the Zaman Media Group, was launched on Monday in an effort to provide news about Turkey to the Arab world in its own language.

İhsanoğlu describes witch hunt against public servants as cruelty

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the presidential candidate jointly nominated by the two major opposition parties, has described an ongoing witch hunt pursued by the government against public servants believed to be affiliated with the faith-based Hizmet movement as “cruelty.”

AK Party municipality cancels Hizmet-affiliated dorm's permit

The Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) mayor of Hendek, a district of Sakarya province, has canceled a building permit that it had issued three months previously for a new student dormitory allegedly because the dorm administration is affiliated with the Hizmet movement, a faith-based civil society initiative intensely disliked by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Award ceremony cancellation on Parliament’s agenda

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu spoke in Parliament on Wednesday about the cancellation of the award ceremony of a short film contest after the competition was won by Seleme Gülen, a relative of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Rwanda: Sector Reforms and Exposure Will Attract More Foreign Investments

Adem Sanliturk is the Secretary General of the Rwanda Active Businessmen Association (RWABA), an association that is directly linked to Tuskon, a confederation of Turkish businessmen and industrialists.

Tanzanian Minister hails Turkey for continued support in education

The Turkish government has been applauded for tremendous efforts in maintaining bilateral cooperation with Tanzania in areas of education and social services aiming at reducing poverty in the local community.

Experts voice concerns about Turkish democracy to US committee

A group of academics and businessmen testified on Tuesday before the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats in a hearing on “The Future of Turkish Democracy” and expressed concern over the future of democracy in Turkey.