Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Monday called on teachers in the country not to show any tolerance to their colleagues who are sympathizers of the faith-based Gülen movement or the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and not to allow them to continue doing their jobs. “Dear teachers, I have an important request of you: Never […]
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As new education year started on Monday, the Ministry of National Education distributed “Attempt to invade Turkey with coup” brochures at all state schools across Turkey. Some 19 million students also watched a video of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reciting the Turkish national anthem along with footage from the night of July 15, when an abortive
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Turkey’s Education Ministry is set to republish 58 state-distributed textbooks in order to avoid any subliminal messages from what the government calls Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). The Undersecretary to Education Ministry Yusuf Tekin said the ministry detected subliminal messages from FETÖ in 58 books. The government accuses the Gülen Movement of masterminding the coup attempt
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The discriminative practices backed by Turkey’s top state-officials has taken a new turn with sympathizers of the Gülen Movement (a.k.a. Hizmet) being denied entry to a mosque in Germany. According to a video posted by Mehmet Cerit, the editor of Zaman Vandaag, an overseas subsidiary of the government-seized Turkish daily Zaman, a man is seen
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A police officer shot and killed the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) Şakran branch head on Tuesday, after the man accused him of being a sympathizer of Turkish Scholar Fethullah Gülen. According to Turkish media, the officer, identified by the initials E.K., got into a brawl with Yalçın Çakar in İzmir’s Şakran district over a discussion regarding the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses
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Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has received the complaints of around 30,000 people negatively affected by the ongoing purge in Turkey against the members of the Gulen movement, a CHP official has said. “We have held face-to-face meetings with more than 4,000 people in the last two months. We have also received appeals via e-mail
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With threats against followers of the Gülen movement — also called Hizmet — becoming common practice among supporters, particularly in Europe, of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, some European expatriate communities now preventing Hizmet members from entering mosques. At least 35 incidents have been reported involving threats against Hizmet members in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
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A private school affiliated with the Gülen movement in Bursa province has been turned into a religious vocational school – known as imam-hatip schools – and members of the staff have placed a verse from the holy Quran at the entrance that reads: “Truth has come, and falsehood has departed.” When Nilufer College in Bursa’s
