December 25, 2014

Extradition not so easy

Günal Kurşun

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan previously praised Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

This burden is too much for Turkey

Cafer Solgun

Nothing would attest more clearly and strikingly to the country President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are dreaming of establishing than Hidayet Karaca, the head of the Samanyolu Broadcasting Group, and three police officers being arrested with frivolous and fictitious evidence on charges of “being a leader or member of an armed terrorist organization.”

Observers: Charging Zaman EIC based on 2 columns, 1 report is ‘unlawful nonsense’

Charging Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı for a crime based on two columns and one report published in his paper is “unlawful nonsense,” according to intellectuals and politicians observing the government-backed media crackdown in which the editor was detained.