August 16, 2014

'Real parallel structure infiltrating government is Tawhid-Selam'

The Dec. 17 and Dec. 25, 2013 government corruption operations were used as a pretext for a massive purge of the National Police Department, and the purge lists had been prepared in advance by Iranian-backed terror group Tawhid-Selam, according to former Hakkari province Police Chief Tufan Ergüder.

President-elect breaks victory speech promise

Turkey's much-anticipated presidential election on Aug. 10 resulted in the victory of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who managed to defeat his close rival Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party's (HDP) candidate Selahattin Demirtaş in the first round. With the 51.8 percent of the votes, Erdoğan has become the president, though he had expected to garner nearer 60 percent, as the opinion polls predicted ahead of the election.

Erdoğan brought censorship, chilling effects on journalism

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is preparing to assume the office of president on Aug. 28 following his election to the state's top post on Aug. 10, has left a legacy on journalism which is filled with confrontation and rebuke of journalists, attempts at censorship, prosecution and even deportation of critical journalists.

Galaxy educates thinkers, innovators

Galaxy International School Uganda (GISU) is a co-educational school in Lubowa, 10 kilometres from Kampala, on the Kampala-Entebbe Road. The school now has a new branch in Jinja on the Walukuba/Scott Road near Nile International Hospital. The school provides international education to students between two and 19 years of age using a student-centered curriculum.