In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for anything bad in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor Yiğit Bulut hinted at connections between FETÖ and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. “FETÖ” is an abbreviation for the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization, coined by the Turkish […]
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Police officers in Turkey’s Muğla province on Sunday detained the son of an academic who is suspected of having links to the Gülen movement, accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup in July, and forced him to ask his father to surrender himself. The son of S.T., a professor at Selçuk University’s medical
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The man who attacked Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan in Aydın on Saturday said in his testimony that he warned the opposition politician to speak politely about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The attacker, Alpaslan Sargın, told the police on Monday he was under the influence of alcohol. ¨I told him to talk
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An Izmir court on Saturday appointed trustees to Kavuklar Holding and Küçükbay Group which parents the popular vegetable oil producer, Orkide, over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Established in 1970, Kavuklar has interests in automotive, real estate, construction, finance, food, and printing businesses. Meanwhile, Küçükbay was ranked Turkey’s 106th largest industrial corporation
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Turkish government has cancelled election of rectors by faculty members with the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becoming only authority to appoint rectors from among three professors proposed by the High Education Council (YÖK). Two government decrees were released as part of Turkey’s post-coup emergency rule on Saturday. According to the new regulation, the president is
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As part of a post-coup-attempt purge, the Turkish government has dismissed 10,158 people from state institutions with new state of emergency decrees issued on Saturday. According to the two new decrees, numbered 675 and 676, a total 10,158 staff members, including 2,216 from the Education Ministry, 2,774 from the Health Ministry and 1,267 from the
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A Turkish court ruled for judicial supervision and a travel ban for Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), claiming that she represents a flight risk. The decision was taken by the 5th Aggravated Felony Court in Şanlıurfa province as part of a case filed against Yüksekdağ for a speech she delivered
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that legislation to reinstate capital punishment, which was abolished in 2004, will soon be taken to Parliament by the Justice And Development Party (AKP). “It is soon. … Don’t worry. … It is soon, God willing. … Our government [AKP] will bring it to Parliament. I believe that
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In a move that is likely to make them the target of hate crimes, the Turkish government has included the names of 37 people allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement on a list of most dangerous terrorists, offering as much as TL 4 million in rewards to those providing information leading to the arrest
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Just ten years ago, Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc recalled a dramatic scene. One diplomat dropped his teacup upon hearing that he was posted to Mongolia with 5,000 USD, special residence, and a car — a lavish job at that time. “How can I live there?” the diplomat reportedly asked, according to Arinc. He noted
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