March 30, 2015

Turkish charity announces cooperation with German counterpart

ASYA, the disaster team of the Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu, declared its cooperation with the German humanitarian organization I.S.A.R. with a press release on March 30.

GYV: 2010 KPSS investigation is another gov’t plot against Hizmet

Mustafa Yeşil, the president of the Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) -- of which prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is the honorary president -- said in a press conference on Monday that a case pertaining to alleged cheating in the State Personnel Examination (KPSS) in 2010 is the latest example of a ruling government plot against sympathizers of the Gülen movement, which is inspired by the teachings of the Islamic scholar.

Documents alleging Gülen is Mason turn out to be forgeries

Documents published by a pro-government daily on Monday alleging that Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen had secretly joined a Masonic Lodge have turned out to be completely fabricated.

Things should not go this way!

Ekrem Dumanlı

I recently ran into one of Turkey's leading businessmen in a crowded place. I wouldn't have been offended if he had ignored me. I would have thought that he feared government pressure. He did not do so.

Political asylum from persecution in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt

The political asylum cases originating from Turkey will likely increase against the background of intensified political persecution of opponents and critics in Turkey by the growing authoritarian and Islamist regime that is bent on abusing the criminal justice system with partisan judges and prosecutors.

BDDK infringes on own ruling in Bank Asya seizure

Turkey's banking watchdog, which took control of a small stake in the country's largest Islamic lender, Bank Asya, over what it described as an illegal share transaction early this month, appears to have breached one of its own rulings, made during a similar case in 2008, in which the watchdog had not required any permission for the transaction of corporate shares accounting for less than 10 percent of the bank.