Dutch Education Minister Jet Bussemaker announced that there is a parliamentary debate over the Islamic University of Rotterdam for cancellation of the “university status” of the institution due to Rector Ahmet Akgündüz’s repeatedly hateful and discriminatory remarks against Turkey’s minorities and the Gülen movement. According to the amendment that Bussemaker is working on, the government […]
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 47-year-old public prosecutor who was recently put behind bars in the western province of Bursa as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement was found hanging in the prison bathroom on Friday morning. The body of the prosecutor, identified as Seyfettin Yiğit, was taken to the Bursa Council of Forensic Medicine for
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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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Turkey’s renowned critical columnists, brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, still have no access to their lawyer even after spending two days in detention, and their detention warrant has not yet been presented. Speaking to news portal T24, the Altan brothers’ lawyer, Veysel Ok, said the columnists, accused of ¨revealing¨ the coup attempt of July
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Turkey’s Sivas University pulled off the shelf of its libraries all copies of the books written by Fethullah Gülen and his alleged supporters and destroyed them via a shredder. The US-based Islamic scholar Gülen is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. The cleric has denied involvement on many occasions.
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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
“The allegation about the gun attack is true. We did our part regarding the issue,” a Kırıkkale businessman proudly confessed that he carried out the attack on a store owned by an alleged follower of the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the coup attempt in July. With top government officials calling on
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