December 13, 2014

'I like the vitality of the participation and the vitality of hospitality within the Hizmet Movement'

Fikir Atlasi*, Episode 22 (Full text)

My name is Alan Jones**. I am a United Methodist pastor and the pastor at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Sacramento, California.

It’s not about a conflict between the government and Hizmet movement

Gültekin Avcı

Insanity ripples through the country, the media and the people. If graft or corruption is the prevailing form of life spreading from the state to society, and if this form of life is supported by people, then we are hitting the bottom day by day. A prosecutor can say “We can detain 500 thousand people if necessary” and still hold his post as if he said quite an ordinary thing. Whereas in Europe mental health of such a prosecutor would be called into question and most probably examined.

Gülen’s lawyers slam Erdoğan’s ‘slanderous’ unsolved murders remarks

The lawyers of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have denounced recent statements by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he held the Hizmet movement responsible for some unsolved murders in Turkey.

Claim of journalists to be detained en masse draws harsh response

A claim of a soon-to-be-unveiled mass detention of journalists in Turkey as part of government efforts to muzzle the remaining free, independent and critical media outlets has prompted a huge outcry in Turkey.

Media representatives slam claim of raid on 150 journalists

The allegation by a whistleblower, who says he is among President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inner circle, that about 150 journalists affiliated with the Hizmet movement will be detained as part of a new wide-scale operation has drawn strong reactions from local and international media representatives and journalists.

I refuse to be intimidated

Abdullah Bozkurt

Against the background of shocking revelations by the anonymous whistleblower Fuat Avni in which he claimed the government would round up some 150 independent and critical journalists in a nationwide sweep, I refuse to be intimidated by the crooked political Islamists who have dealt a heavy blow against the democratic values of this nation, slid the country backwards in regards to democratic rights and liberties, squandered public resources and blatantly abused the religion of Islam for the purposes of amassing personal wealth and consolidating power.

Thousands keep ‘Justice Watch’ for journalists in İstanbul

On Thursday "Fuat Avni," a whistleblower who says he is among President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inner circle, claimed that the dozens of journalists will be detained in simultaneous police raids to be conducted in İstanbul, Ankara and Malatya on Friday.

Whistleblower says anti-journalist gov’t operation to kick off Sunday

A Twitter user known by the pseudonym Fuat Avni, who has revealed many government-backed police operations to the public, has claimed that a major government-backed police operation targeting many Hizmet-affliated journalists will kick off on Sunday.

The parody of dictatorship and silence

Orhan Kemal Cengiz

It is as if we are watching a parody of dictatorship. Either the dictator of this game will show a pathetic indulgence while trying to satisfy his ambitions, or, as we know from the theatrical scene in Orhan Pamuk’s novel “Snow”, the guns we think are loaded with blanks will catch fire and the whole country will slide towards an irreversible state of disaster.