Cihan reported election results accurately despite cyber attacks

The Cihan news agency, which is both domestically and internationally renowned for its successful election coverage over the past 12 years, was able to deliver the most accurate results from polling stations during the Aug. 10 presidential election, despite experiencing a number of cyber attacks.

Back to the witch hunt

Mümtazer Türköne

Prime Minister and President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's balcony speech increased expectations that a new starting point both for himself and for the government would be established. Only three days were enough to smash this expectation to pieces. Erdoğan is making arrangements to ensure that he leaves behind a smoothly operating government which will have full obedience to him and will not cause him much nuisance. To do this, he uses the best method he knows: maintaining the witch hunt.

Report: Religious communities wiretapped by AK Party government

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government reportedly ordered the wiretapping of all religious groups in Turkey: the İsmailağa community led by Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, the Süleymancılar community led by Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan, the Nur movement, the Nakşi movement, and the Kadiri movement, as well as the Hizmet movement, a faith-based civil society initiative intensely disliked by President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Deceased Mongolian teacher becomes Twitter trending topic

Mongolian teacher Galimbek Sharivkhan, who died in a car accident in South Africa on Saturday, has become a trending topic on Twitter with the hashtag #MoğolistanınAdemTatlısı (Mongolia's Adem Tatlı) making the social networking site's trending topics lists for the world and Turkey on Saturday night.

Turkish gov't attempt to sink bank betrays markets

An alleged government plan to force the closure of a Turkish participation bank as part of ongoing political pressure against the Hizmet movement is tantamount to betraying the country and, thus, jeopardizes overall economic stability, market experts argue.

Gov't persecution of businesses bodes ill for overall economy

The Finance Ministry's profiling of 100,000 companies owned by businessmen with affiliations to the Hizmet movement was one of the hottest debate topics last month, and the latest remarks from Confederation of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen (TUSKON) Chairman Rızanur Meral revealed that the profiling has been followed by persecution.