Koza İpek Holding
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The Koza-İpek Holding was a Turkish group of companies that was founded in 1948 and is now critical of the government and is closely related to the Gülen movement . The holding was one of the most important conglomerates in Turkey, which, in addition to the mining companies, Koza Gold (Turkish: Koza Altın) and Koza Anadolu Metal, included banks, energy and media companies, including important opposition media such as the Bugün TV and Kanaltürk TV channels and the Bugün daily newspapers and Millet. In 2011, the chairman of the holding, Hamdi Akin Ipek, founded the Altın Koza University ("Golden Silkworms" University) in Ankara , an allusion to the "golden generation" that the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen claims to be bringing up.
The holding was dissolved on February 29, 2016.
Receivership
In the run-up to the parliamentary election on November 1, 2015 , the government ( Davutoğlu II cabinet ) around Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu closed the holding in Ankara on September 1, 2015 on the grounds that it was being investigated on suspicion of supporting the terrorist organization FETÖ / PDY and propaganda, search. Fethullah Gülen had been classified as a terrorist by the National Security Council (MGK); he was accused of having built parallel structures within Turkey and of wanting to overthrow the government. Six people were arrested and the arrest warrant for Hamdi Akin Ipek could not be carried out because he had left for London two days earlier in his private jet. Hamdi Akin Ipek called the allegations against him a "fantasy product" and "outright defamation". Hamdi Akin Ipek was good friends with Erdogan for many years and himself profited from an earlier expropriation campaign by Kemalist media 10 years earlier. That only changed in 2012 when the AKP fell out with the Gülen community.
On October 26, 2015, the Koza-İpek-Holding was placed under administration. On October 27, four days before the parliamentary elections, police officers used chainsaws to gain access to the corporate headquarters and the editorial offices of Bugün , Millet and the control rooms of the associated television station Bugün TV and Kanaltürk and used pepper spray and water cannons against employees who attacked themselves opposed them, injuring several journalists. The television stations were shut down, the front pages of the newspapers appeared in protest on a black background in white letters and the headline “A Black Day”. As a result, more than 50 editors-in-chief worldwide, including representatives of the New York Times , Süddeutscher Zeitung and La Stampa , wrote an open letter to President Erdoğan appealing to him to guarantee freedom of the press. You complained in it u. a. the storming of Koza-İpek Media.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The media entrepreneur who arouses Erdoğan's anger , Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 30, 2015
- ↑ İpek Üniversitesi kapatıldı! Altın Koza İpek de eğitim brat öğrencilere ne olacak? (tr) , Ajans Haber. July 23, 2016. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Police switch off critical TV channels , Deutschlandfunk, October 28, 2015
- ↑ Turkey arrests more journalists, alleging 'terrorist' links to Erdoğan opponent , The Guardian, September 2, 2015
- ^ Turkish police raid Koza Ipek conglomerate , Anadolu Ajansı , September 2, 2015
- ↑ Jürgen Gottschlich: Police storm media house , taz, October 28, 2015
- ↑ Sources: Turkish police storms opposition TV stations (article on www.spiegel.de from October 28, 2015), Court seizes control of Gülen-linked industry, media group (article on Hürriyet Daily News , accessed October 31, 2015)
- ↑ Today's Zaman : Bugün, Millet newspapers come out with black front pages to protest media crackdown ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. October 2015
- ↑ Editors-in-chief worldwide appeal to Erdoğan (article on www.zeit.de, accessed on October 31, 2015)
- ↑ "... the raid and seizure of Koza Ipek Media, known for being critical of the President ...", source editors demand protection of press in Turkey (article on www.englishpen.org from October 30, 2015)
