Making of GONGOs*; “Turkish government paid $460 million to Islamist foundations in three months

*A government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) is a non-governmental organization that was set up or sponsored by a government in order to further its political interests and mimic the civic groups and civil society at home, or promote its international or geopolitical interests abroad. via
This is just a list of Istanbul municipality’s payments to Islamist NGOs… I hear that today there is a ban imposed over news of these payments… 

 

The Ministry of Treasury and Finance’s official figures show that the Turkish government allocated…

Why Erdogan is terrified of Istanbul’s new mayor

The Istanbul city hall building is a huge modern structure at the heart of the city’s historic peninsula, which is otherwise replete with Ottoman-era …

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