October 14, 2014

Bank Asya answers smear campaign

Publicly traded Bank Asya roundly denied the 'baseless rumors' about its financial status via the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP).

CHP deputy calls Erdoğan's order to bring down Hizmet 'crime'

The main opposition Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) Deputy Umut Oran denounced President Tayyip Erdoğan's instruction to the MGK (National Security Council) to bring down the Hizmet movement this Monday.

AK Party founder: I don't believe claims of parallel state

Yaşar Yakış, former foreign minister and a founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), criticized the party on Monday, saying he does not believe in the existence of a "parallel state," a term used by the AK Party to describe followers of the faith-based Hizmet movement, which the government alleges to have formed an illegitimate structure within the state.