Gülen movement

Turkey?s semi-official Anadolu Agency has filmed the mansion complex of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, the ally-turned-bête noire of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

?The mansion in Pennsylvania, which is said to have once been flooded by visitors, is now silent,? the report stated on Jan. 29.

Washington reviews its relations with Ankara as divergences in regional policy approaches and Turkish leaders' anti-U.S. rhetoric disrupts ties between the two allies, a senior American analyst has said.

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies have prepared a fresh bill to boost the government's control over Internet. 

Last minute amendments to an omnibus bill presented to the parliament on Jan. 23 stipulate that the Prime Minister and his ministers will be able to shut down websites for reasons including "national security" without a court order. 

An alleged fraudster with familial links to Turkey?s former science minister has been exposed as part of a probe into a spying case that encompasses wiretapping then-Prime Minister President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and other top-ranking state officials.

The Turkish president has again called on foreign countries to shut down schools operated by supporters of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based ally-turned-foe, saying the Turkish state would happily replace those schools.

With the vote in parliament late Jan. 20, the majority of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers put the final nail in the coffin of yet another coup attempt targeting the ruling party, and hence the national will.

Trust in political leaders decreased and the military was once again the most trusted body in Turkey in 2014, according to a recent survey conducted by Kadir Has University and released on Jan. 20.

An Ankara court has ruled to block the Twitter and Facebook accounts of notorious whistleblower Fuat Avni, who has revealed the details of a number of police and judicial operations before they happened through social media.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has suggested there is a plot behind the ongoing unrest in Cizre, a town near the border with Syria and Iraq, where tension peaked after a 12-year-old boy was shot last week, the sixth person to be killed in the town in the last three weeks.

A broad police operation into the so-called ?parallel structure,? members of the Gülen movement that allegedly infiltrated the judiciary and security forces, was launched launched Jan. 20 as part of claims that they wiretapped and spied on figures including then-PM Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.