In yet another of such remarks, Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmuş targeted Gülen movement which was accused by Turkey’s government and President Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the failed coup attempt on July 15, saying it is not different than Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Speaking at the 9th meeting of […]
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In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for anything wrong in Turkey, the chairman of Soma Holding has reiterated earlier accusations, demanding an investigation into the movement’s role in the country’s deadliest mining disaster, which killed 301 people in 2014. Soma Holding Chairman Can Gürkan said during a hearing on Wednesday that the
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told fellow deputies from Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a meetin on Friday that they will be relentless in rooting out FETO, a derogatory term coined by AKP government to refer to Gülen movement symphatizers, from wherever they are, a daily reported. “We have to root FETO members out
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In yet another attempt to demonize sympathizers of the Gülen movement, pro-government journalist Ömer Turan said Gülenists make use of jinns and magicians in order to spread cancer in the country. “FETÖ is capable of seeping into the bodies of targeted people and instilling cancer with the help of a method called magnetic wave, or
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During a TV program recently aired on the pro-government Haber-Turk station, Sabah daily columnists Ferhat Ünlü and Metehan Demir and TV anchor Didem Arslan Yılmaz discussed whether US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s drinking black tea sends a secret signal to followers of the Gülen movement. Ünlü stated during the program that he received a
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A primary school teacher in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır attempted to convince a Kurdish boy to have his Kurdish name, Biryar, changed to Ramazan, the Turkish version of the Arabic word Ramadan, according to a story in the Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday. Eğitim-Sen union official Mehmet Nuri Özdemir told Cumhuriyet that a teacher at
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A pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) Twitter troll has called on the government to make plans for the massacre of all Gülen sympathizers who are currently behind bars in the event of a second coup attempt in the country. Responding to a claim voiced by retired Col. Atilla Uğur in the Yeni Şafak daily on
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Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) İstanbul deputy Mustafa Ataş told pro gov’t Star daily on Saturday that a total of 619 Gulenists have so far been detected within AK Party, and vowed to clean those “who have anything to do with” the Gülen movement. “We have established groups of three people in every province of Turkey and
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Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli argued on Saturday that the Gülen movement could have played a role in Moody’s downgrading of the country’s sovereign credit rating to non-investment grade, reaching new heights in holding the movement responsible for any and every problem Turkey experiences. Sharing a series of messages on Twitter, the minister said
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday threatened followers of the faith-based Gülen movement living all over the world, saying that no country is safe for them. “No country, no region anywhere in the world, is a safe haven for FETÖ [an acronym the government has been using to refer to the Gülen movement] and militants,”
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