American Media

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül on July 12 strictly ruled out any contact with the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen after the latter claimed in an interview that he had previously met with Gül at his residency in Pennsylvania. 

If anybody is wondering whether the "justice march" in Turkey, which was initiated by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to protest the arrest of one of its own lawmakers, is drawing attention in Washington, the coverage by top American newspapers might give some clue. American media jumped on board roughly around the 20th day of the march, which was only a few days ago. 

Ahead of the May 16 White House meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, U.S. senators and members of the House of Representatives reported to have written a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, urging him to concentrate more on Turkey's appalling retreat from fundamental rights, which constitute the backbone of modern democracies.

U.S. President Donald Trump's enthusiasm to call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to congratulate him over his referendum victory on day one raised quite many eyebrows in Washington. The usual suspects of the political scene in the U.S. capital immediately started voicing concern that Trump's call gave the stamp of U.S. approval of the referendum result on a silver plate to Erdoğan. 

Albanian opposition leader Lulzim Basha, from the centre-right Democratic Party (PD) gave an interview to controversial American media outlet Breitbart during a visit to the United States to raise awareness about the political situation in the country.

The English language used to be an asset of the US and UK. Now it has become a weakness.

It is one thing not to believe your eyes. It is another thing to ignore it, deny it and live in constant delusion. A majority of Turkey is in the second group. For them, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is God's gift to earth and to all Muslims, and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can do no wrong. Sadly, this delusional insistence is becoming an existential danger.

It was not clear a few days ago whether Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an would meet U.S. President Barack Obama during his stay in Washington DC for the Nuclear Security Summit on March 31-April 1. It was underlined that Obama had no scheduled official bilateral contact with any of the 52 leaders attending the summit, and Erdo?an would instead be meeting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Last night, breaking news came out from the reporters who had been waiting for hours at the gates of Turkey's Constitutional Court. The court had ruled that the rights of daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül had been violated. In other words, these journalists, who had been in jail for 92 days, had to be released.