February 15, 2015

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Hizmet Movement

Gökhan Bacık

Immanuel Wallerstein, who is influenced by Marxism, says Europe went through an important stage during “a prolonged period extending roughly from the 1450s into the 1600s”.

Students of Turkish schools in Romania impress in science competition

Students from Turkish schools in Romania impress in the “First Step” science project competition.

Law Prof. Karahan: Hate crimes against Hizmet can be prosecuted at ECtHR, ICC

The Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has taken over management control of some of the privileged shares of Bank Asya as part of a government-operated crackdown on institutions affiliated with the Gülen movement, also known as Hizmet, and shareholders will be filing a lawsuit against the action, but this week's guest for Monday Talk has said it is likely that the case will end up at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and even at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Watch your mouth

Ekrem Dumanlı

Be Fair

"The Gülen movement is worse than the Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK]," Erdoğan told a group of journalists. This is cruel! “The Gülen movement did greater damage to the country,” he says. This sentence does contain any trace of truth in it, but betrays a profound grudge and incurable hatred and the potential for limitless violence.

Bank Asya shareholders slam defamatory gov't press reporting

Pro-government media outlets’ defamatory reporting, along with the banking regulator’s politically motivated management takeover of publicly traded participation bank Bank Asya, draws condemnation.