August 12, 2014

Police report accuses Gülen based on fabricated ‘gov't media' stories

According to a story reported by the news portal Rota Haber, the National Police Department drafted a secret report in June 2014 mostly based on stories in pro-government media which claim that the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is the leader of a terrorist organization and is responsible for the wiretapping of a classified meeting at the Foreign Ministry.

Bank Asya shares results amid gov't pressure

Turkish Islamic lender Bank Asya posted a net profit of TL 51.4 million in the January-June period of this year, which was 48.8 percent lower year-on-year.

'I'm ready to serve many years in prison if what I did was illegal'

Yakub Saygılı, a former police chief who was purged following the Dec. 17 and 25 corruption probes, says he is confident that his team had not engaged in illegal operations as alleged by the government.