December 11, 2014

Journalists and Writers Foundation's statement on recent developments

The developments of the last year have made it crystal clear that the government is exerting great efforts to change the agenda that is unfavorable to it and doing everything to achieve this. In this framework, references are made to a non-existent mosque in Cuba as if it were already constructed, and the plan to teach the old script used by our ancestors to students is marketed as a life-and-death matter to set the agenda in an artificial manner. Likewise, police operations are conducted with much fanfare at midnight to take innocent people into custody without any evidence, giving the impression that these moves seek to distract public attention or use them as a screen.

Hundreds on vigil outside Zaman building to protest possible raid

Hundreds of readers thronged outside the headquarters of Feza Media Holding to protest a possible operation against journalists, most of them from Zaman daily, defying what they claim to be the government's increasingly authoritarian practices to silence outspoken media.

GYV harshly denies PM’s allegation that Hizmet, PKK working together

The Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) strongly criticized and denied recent remarks from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who alleged that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the so-called parallel structure are “working together,” saying the allegation is baseless slander directed at the movement.

Fuat Avni: Some 150 Hizmet-affiliated journalists to be detained

A Twitter user known by the pseudonym Fuat Avni, who has revealed many government-backed police operations to the public, has claimed that about 150 journalists affiliated with the Hizmet movement will be detained on Friday as part of a new wide-scale operation.

AK Party’s persecution of Hizmet movement exposed in chronicle

The Rethink Institute has published a chronicle of acts committed against Turkey's faith-based Hizmet movement at the hands of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) over the last two years, providing a long list of abuses the movement's followers have been exposed to in the country.