Today In Crackdown

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 81 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 395 […]

At least 20 women were detained as part of a corum-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Saturday. Detention warrants were issued for 27 people while police were able to locate only 20 of them as of Saturday. The suspects, among them housewives

Nazlı N. Mert, who had just given birth to a baby at Lokman Hekim Hospital in Ankara’s Etlik neighborhood, was detained by police and taken to a police station with her newborn baby on Saturday as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group. According to the Haberdar news portal, the husband of Nazlı N.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s chief advisor was reportedly detained on Saturday in Ankara as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, chief advisor Birol Erdem and his wife Gülümser Erdem were detained in Ankara

Political observer and owner of the MetroPoll polling company Professor Özer Sencar was detained on Saturday. “Ozer Sencar was taken into custody. We have yet to know the reason for detention. We hope the process to be resolved soon. Respectfully announced to the public on behalf of him. (His family), the pollster’s Twitter account said.

Twenty-one years old university student Ali Gül, who appeared in a popular No campaign video in the run up to the April 16 presidential referendum, has received 2 years and 17 days of suspended jail term. The catchy video titled “What does a ‘No’ mean?” was quickly shared by thousands of social media users after it

Turkish fashion designer Barbaros Şansal has been given a suspended prison sentence of 6 months, 20 days on charges of “insulting Turkish nation” with a video he posted on social media on the New Year’s Eve. According to Sözcü daily, the sentence was sought in line with Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which makes

Former Zaman columnist and academic, Abdülkadir Civan was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison over alleged membership to a terrorist organization, on May 26. Civan wrote columns for both Zaman and its sister publication, English-language Today’s Zaman; and gave economics courses at İzmir’s Gediz University until all three institutions were shut down by