This report discusses the history of the Hizmet movement and its establishment of schools around the world, specifically in Africa. It then explores Turkey's efforts to take over these schools, especially in weak African countries, by incentives or diplomatic pressure and to transfer their assets to the Maarif Foundation.
Turkey now leads the group of countries with the highest number of imprisoned journalists, with three times the number of journalists jailed in Iran and China.
LONDON-06 September 2018 What happened? On 6 September 2018, Moldovan and Turkish intelligence services arbitrarily detained 6 Turkish nationals in Moldova over links to... Read More
LONDON- 21 March 2018 What happened? On 14 March 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats after Russia refused... Read More
LONDON – 28 February 2018 What happened? On Aug 5, 2016, Gokhan Acikkolu, a 42-year old history teacher, was tortured to death under police... Read More
With regard to leadership and vision, the Sunni Muslim world seems to be in disarray. None of the following leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdel... Read More
Introduction Gareth Jenkins once criticised Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of ‘projective’ rather than deductive reasoning, working backwards... Read More
In the wake of the thwarted coup of 15 July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency, bypassing parliament and enabling rule... Read More
