Turkish Minute
Gülen movement-aligned, anti-Erdoğan Turkish exile press
Background
Turkish Minute publishes news in English about Turkey and republishes content from the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), founded in 2017 by Abdullah Bozkurt, a former bureau chief at the English edition of Zaman, a newspaper aligned with the Gülen movement that Turkish authorities shut down after the July 2016 coup attempt. Bozkurt received asylum in Sweden and, with journalist Levent Kenez, built SCF into a hub tracking Turkey's post-coup crackdown on journalists, judges, military officers, and civil servants accused of Gülenist ties. Turkish officials brand SCF and its affiliated outlets as fronts for the Gülen movement, which Ankara has designated a terrorist organization and blames for the coup attempt; SCF disputes being a movement mouthpiece but does not conceal its staff's Gülen-aligned journalistic backgrounds. Turkey has sought Bozkurt's extradition from Sweden, which Swedish courts have rejected, and SCF has reported Turkish intelligence surveillance and threats against its staff. The outlet's reporting is consistently critical of the Erdoğan government's human rights record, judiciary, and media freedom restrictions, reflecting the perspective of Turkish exiles displaced by the post-coup purges rather than a domestic Turkish mainstream viewpoint. It is frequently cited by international press freedom monitors (e.g., RSF, Freedom House, CPJ) as a source on Turkey's media crackdown, though its close identification with one side of Turkey's Erdoğan-Gülen conflict means its coverage of that conflict is not neutral.
Sources
- Stockholm Center for Freedom - Wikipedia
- Abdullah Bozkurt - Wikipedia
- WHO ARE WE? - Turkish Minute
- Sweden rejects Turkey's extradition request for journalist Abdullah Bozkurt - Stockholm Center for Freedom
- Turkey: Freedom on the Net 2025 Country Report | Freedom House
Profile compiled 2026-09-25; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.