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MİT’s warning on Gülen 13 years ago SEDAT ERGİN

MİT’s warning on Gülen 13 years ago

A significant benefit of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on the July 15, 2016, coup attempt is that it has registered all accessible information and documents about the Gülen movement, thus providing public access to them

July 05 2017
Gülenists in the National Intelligence Organization SEDAT ERGİN

Gülenists in the National Intelligence Organization

One of the generals interned at the General Staff Headquarters during the coup attempt on July 15 is a well-known name to the public: Brig. Gen. Ertuğrulgazi Özkürkçü, the head of the Press and Public Relations Department.

July 04 2017
Ball in whose court on coup bid intelligence SEDAT ERGİN

Ball in whose court on coup bid intelligence?

The July 2016 coup attempt of Fethullah Gülen’s followers took decades of systematic planning, which involved the infiltration of the Turkish Armed Forces from bottom to top.

July 02 2017
Why was the National Security Council’s Gülen decision not implemented SEDAT ERGİN

Why was the National Security Council’s Gülen decision not implemented?

The work of the commission set up to investigate Turkey’s July 15, 2016 coup attempt reveals that state institutions considered the Gülen brotherhood a threat in the past and had made warnings.

June 30 2017
Reinventing the values of traditional journalism SEDAT ERGİN

Reinventing the values of traditional journalism

Around 10 years ago, international media forums used to focus on the benefits of developments in communication technologies. Today, the question is more often about how to cope with the inconveniences brought about by technological advancements and social media.

June 28 2017
July 15 coup attempt and intelligence SEDAT ERGİN

July 15 coup attempt and intelligence

Almost a year has passed since the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, but the intelligence dimension of this insurrection is still debated.

June 27 2017
US constitution and the latest Turkish-US crisis SEDAT ERGİN

US constitution and the latest Turkish-US crisis

In front of me I have a Washington Post article from March 26, 1988, titled “Ruling arouses security worry at embassies.”

June 20 2017
Turkey’s struggle against Gülen requires great care SEDAT ERGİN

Turkey’s struggle against Gülen requires great care

The owner of daily newspaper Sözcü, Burak Akbay, its website manager Mediha Olgun, and its İzmir correspondent Gökmen Ulu are all accused of “aiding a terror organization while not being a member of it.”

June 18 2017
The journal of a journalist whose friends have been jailed SEDAT ERGİN

The journal of a journalist whose friends have been jailed

Since 1985, 32 years ago, I have been friends with the arrested Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy and journalist Enis Berberoğlu and his wife, Oya Berberoğlu. Enis joined daily Cumhuriyet’s Ankara bureau that year, and I remember attending their wedding at Ankara’s Gençlik Park on June 7, 1985, and taking a wonderful photo with all our friends

June 16 2017