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Washington reviews its relations with Ankara as divergences in regional policy approaches and Turkish leaders' anti-U.S. rhetoric disrupts ties between the two allies, a senior American analyst has said.

The Turkish president has again called on foreign countries to shut down schools operated by supporters of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based ally-turned-foe, saying the Turkish state would happily replace those schools.

As the rule of law in Turkey deteriorates, religion and a sense of ?divine justice? are quickly replacing it.
The country?s football community is not immune to this rapid change. During a conference this week, football coaches were asked who would help them if they were subjected to injustice.

As the rule of law in Turkey deteriorates, religion and a sense of ?divine justice? are quickly replacing it.
The country?s football community is not immune to this rapid change. During a conference this week, football coaches were asked who would help them if they were subjected to injustice.

Some twenty Turkish police officials were taken into custody on Jan. 5 across eight southern and central provinces, as part of an investigation into alleged illegal wiretapping.

According to Gaziantep Police Department's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Unit, the arrests came after a Gaziantep prosecutor issued arrest warrants for the officers.

As I wrote in my previous piece, 2014 was a horrible year for Turkey, as the bitter political war in the country led to a downward spiral for democracy. The worse news is that 2015 will probably not be any better, for the dynamics that initiated the downward spiral seem quite persistent and even well established; the government now has many "enemies" that it wants to crush or subdue.

Members of the Council of Ministers and top military officials will get new anti-wiretapping phones before the end of the year, Industry Minister Fikri Işık said, while arguing that the "parallel structure" - a phrase used to describe the Gülenist movement - was deeply rooted in the strategic boards of the country's top science body.

A total of 16 people who were detained in a Dec. 14 operation on media groups linked to the Fethullah Gülen movement have been sent to court after their testimonies were taken by police.

The secularist neighborhood is very much in disarray nowadays. Some sadistically enjoy what is happening to the people belonging to the Fethullah Gülen Islamist brotherhood, some are expressing sympathy for their suffering, while some are rather indifferent, saying two evil forces are fighting and they just don't bother which will eventually overcome the other.

Turkish law enforcement officials are basing the Dec. 14 crackdown throughout Turkey on a former police operation allegedly carried out by members of the Gülen movement against a rival Islamist movement.