August 18, 2014

Gülen slams pro-gov't media for disseminating lies and blasphemy

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen criticized on Monday the pro-government media in Turkey for spinning the truth and disseminating lies while trying to justify senior officials' blasphemous remarks.

What happened to getting permission from the authorities?

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The Mavi Marmara set sail for Gaza in 2010. Bülent Yıldırım, president of the Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH), association that organized the trip, said the goal was to set the agenda. But before the ship could reach Gaza, Israel raided it and killed eights Turks and one Turkish-American.

Former SPK head laments ‘unusual' gov't pressure

Ongoing government pressure on independent institutions and private companies has reached worrisome levels of despotism that markets have not seen for 30 years, former head of Turkey's primary financial regulatory agency has told Today's Zaman.