Bütükçekmece 5th Court of First Instance ruled on Thursday to appoint Hasan Ölçer, Vahdettin Özcan and Faik Tiryaki as trustees for the foundation. The trustees will be receiving TL 4,000 salaries.
Fatih University Rector’s Office has released a statement following reports about trustee appointment, stating that trustees were not appointed to the university itself, but the Health and Treatment Foundation that established it.
Ölçer was previously appointed in October, 2015 as a trustee to Koza-İpek Holding. He had taken over the management of Bugün and Millet dailies following the seizure of the holding and fired a number of journalists, accusing them of preparing an “awful paper” by running the headline “Seizure with Trustee.”
İpek media group eventually had to close down in February.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government launched an all-out war against the Gülen movement, after a corruption investigation targeting people in Erdoğan’s inner circle became public with a wave of detentions on Dec. 17, 2013.
Erdoğan accused police officers, judges and prosecutors he claimed are linked with Gülen movement, which is inspired by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, of being behind the investigation, which he branded as a “coup attempt.”
The movement strongly denies the allegations brought against it.
The move to appoint trustees comes amidst escalating government pressure on sympathizers of the Gülen movement as well as business groups, hospitals and schools affiliated with it.
Trustees were also appointed to Mevlana University and Bursa Orhangazi University this week.
Published on Turkish Minute, 9 June 2016, Thursday
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