January 14, 2015

ALDE President Watson outlines alarming trend of Turkish gov’t policies

Graham Watson, the president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party in Europe voices outrage at the violations of separation of powers, journalist detainments in a worrisome trend in Turkish government policies.

US professor urges Washington not to extradite Gülen to Turkey

An American professor from the Columbia University has urged Washington not to extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to Turkey, noting that attacks on Gülen are part of a pattern to silence dissent.

Turkish intelligence and national police all investigated ‘Tahşiyeciler'

Zaman newspaper’s editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı and Samanyolu Broadcast Group President were amongst members of the press detained on Dec 14, 2014 for allegedly defaming a suspected al-Qaeda affiliated Tahşiyeciler group through press articles, dating a couple of years ago.

Ex-Minister calls for focus on corruption, not parallel conspiracies

Fikri Sağlar, a former minister of culture and a left-wing politician, reacted against Sabri Uzun’s conspiracy theories pointed at the Hizmet movement, stating “they are trying to find this imaginary parallel structure under everything.”