by Raneem Hannoush | Aug 28, 2016 | Middle East
Turkey’s recent purge, post the 15 July failed coup attempt had targeted what it calls a ‘parallel state.’ In the intense aftermath of the putsch, the responsive crackdown chiefly affected Hizmet-affiliated parts of the educational sector. Hizmet, or Hizmet Service,...
by Thair Abbas | Dec 30, 2014 | Media
Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ekrem Dumanlı was arrested on December 14, part of a series of coordinated raids by Turkish authorities against a number of prominent media figures, all facing charges of belonging to a terrorist “parallel organization.” The organization in...
by Thair Abbas | Apr 4, 2014 | Interviews
Ankara, Asharq Al-Awsat—Founded in 1994, the Journalists’ and Writers’ Foundation (GYV) of the Hizmet movement has been at the forefront of attempts by the organization and its founder, Fethullah Gülen, to promote its message in the Turkish and global media. Amid the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 1, 2014 | World
Istanbul, Reuters—Turkey’s parliament passed legislation to shut down private preparatory schools many of which are an important source of income and influence for an Islamic cleric Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan accuses of running a covert campaign to topple...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 26, 2013 | World
Istanbul, Reuters—Turkey’s opposition accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday of trying to rule via a secretive “deep state” after a cabinet reshuffle that would tighten controls on police already beleaguered by government-ordered...
