Gülen movement

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has called on the Turkish government to stop using anti-terror laws and financial agencies against journalists in the wake of police raids targeting a corporation and the arrests of two British journalists.

Turkish police have raided companies in Ankara belonging to Koza ?pek, a corporation linked to the government?s ally-turned-nemesis Fethullah Gülen, raising concerns about freedom of the press.

According to the reporting of the pro-government media, the Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) slogan for the Nov. 1 election will be ?Vote for stability.?

If we are to talk about stability in 13 years of AKP governance, that can only be limited to everything becoming upside down.

Dear lieutenant colonel Mehmet Bey,

When you were holding the Turkish flag-wrapped coffin of your soldier brother, crying "Ali, Ali?"

I felt your pain deep inside of me,

You were revolting with the pain of having lost your brother.

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z has expressed his desire to ?achieve martyrdom,? while commenting on allegations that his sons had paid fee to avoid military service.

?My goal is to be martyred, if Allah desires, for my religion, nation and country,? the minister said.

The issue is about one?s internal accounting and between him and Allah, the minister said.

Eight people have been detained in raids on 29 educational institutions operated by the movement of U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, an ally-turned-foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, in Turkey?s Aegean province of ?zmir. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said Turkey will no longer extradite criminal suspects to Germany if Berlin does not agree to extradite two controversial former Turkish prosecutors who recently fled there.

A Turkish prosecutor who handled probes into alleged coup cases in Turkey has fled with a colleague to Germany via Georgia and Armenia after learning of an upcoming arrest warrant issued in his name, daily Hürriyet reported on Aug. 14. 

Authorities in Turkey have staged a large purge of the police forces, forcing close to 300 officers into retirement amid a recent upsurge in violence directed at the police by out-lawed groups.

A Turkish court has accepted an indictment which charged a prosecutor and a judge in a landmark corruption investigation which targeted then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's son and scores of businessman in 2013.