Fethullah Gülen

Turkish Justice Minister Kenan ?pek has said the election process of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) members is wrong and needs to be changed. 

Albanian officials have made it clear that Albania is not planning to act on demands by Turkey's President for the country to close down the Gulen movement.

President Erdogan made his request in Tirana last week when he called the Gulen movement a terrorist organization.

On May 16, we reported that the death penalty given to President Mohamed Morsi was a decision that shocked the world, using the title ?The world is shocked! Death sentence for president who received 52 percent of votes.?

The editor-in-chief of daily Hürriyet, Sedat Ergin, has responded to claims made by the Turkuvaz Media Group and the PM The editor-in-chief of daily Hürriyet, Sedat Ergin, has responded to claims made by the Turkuvaz Media Group and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu over the Meral Ak?ener controversy, in an article published on May 17.
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The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor?s Office has urged the Communications Ministry to hamper all media communications of the government?s ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gülen by withdrawing state means used to facilitate the broadcasts.

Ben Blushi, an Albanian lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party (PS), has slammed Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s call for the country to target followers of Fethullah Gülen, which the Turkish president made during his recent visit to the Balkan country. 

Turkey has placed under arrest the powerful former police chief of the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r and nine others as part of a case into eavesdropping of top officials, reports said May 16.
  

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli has said if the Gülen movement, which Turkey?s National Security Council (MGK) deemed a threat to the nation, is a terrorist organization then the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would need to be held accountable, as they were in a close alliance for 10 years.

Ten people were arrested and fifteen were released on probation by an Ankara court May 15 on charges of illegal wiretapping a total of 48 people, including politicians, journalists and businessmen.

With only three weeks left to crucial parliamentary elections, the flames of Turkish politics have been fanned once again by claims that a high-level female official of an opposition party was blackmailed with an inappropriate video recording.