Today In Crackdown

A group of police officers mopped the floor with Sultan Özakça and Esra Özakça, the mother and wife of Semih Özakça, an educator who was jailed after going on a hunger strike in protest of his dismissal with government decrees in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt. Özakça’s wife and mother were reportedly […]

Seven of the media outlets Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). In a statement on May 31, TMSF listed properties belonging to Can Erzincan, Barış and Ört TV stations, Cuma, Herkül FM and Ört FM radio stations along with Nazar, Yerel

At least 12 women were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Monday. Police carried out operation to detain 12 members and executives of the Elazig-based Harput Active Women Association, which was earlier shuttered by the government

At least 25 people were detained on early Tuesday as part of an investigation into Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Some 400 police carried out raids to detain 25 suspects in Istanbul, Sanliurfa and Adana provinces, among them those who were earlier dismissed from their jobs

Turkish police detained a total of twenty-seven academics who were previously expelled from the İzmir-based 9 Eylül University through government decrees, Turkish media reports said on Tuesday. The academics are reportedly accused of having links to Turkey’s Gülen group, using a smart phone application known as ByLock, having a bank account at the now-closed Gülen-linked bank,

A Turkish prosecutor issued a detention warrant for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir, according to Turkish media reports on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear on which charges the detention warrant was issued for Baydemir. On Monday, HDP Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released by a Batman court

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released by a Batman court on May 3 after spending five months in pre-trial detention and again detained on Monday at Batman Airport due to an arrest warrant issued by another Batman court on May 8, has been arrested, the Dihaber news website has

Istanbul police have sealed off the Gezi Park in Taksim neighborhood as the fourth anniversary of the nationwide anti-government demonstrations nears. The Gezi protests began on May 31, 2013 in İstanbul as an effort to stop bulldozers from razing central Gezi Park, one of the few green spaces left in the city’s Taksim neighborhood, to

A former professor at Kayseri’s Erciyes University, Y.C. was detained along with his father O.C., in Turkey’s border province of Edirne on Monday. 41-year-old professor who was earlier dismissed from his post over alleged ties to the Gulen movement; and his father, aged 65 years old, was caught by gendarmerie forces near the Greek border