Today In Crackdown

Ahmet Yılmaz, a muhtar, or neighborhood administrator who allegedly intervened in Sala prayers recited by a local imam in order to encourage people into streets during the night of July 15, 2016 coup attempt, has been arrested by a Turkish court. Sala is a religious call read to announce a funeral ceremony at mosques while […]

Figen Yüksekdağ, former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been given a prison sentence of 14 months on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the decision was made by the Mersin 7th Penal Court of First Instance. Yüksekdağ is already in prison. She was arrested

Internationally acclaimed Turkish author and human right activist, Aslı Erdoğan said she sees parallels between today’s Turkey and the Germany during Nazi rule, adding that the country was turned into a concentration camp in the face of post-coup arrest waves. Speaking to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) early this week, Erdogan said Turkey has been

Muhammet Furkan Sökmen, a Turkish teacher working for two schools established by Gulen movement followers in Myanmar, was forcibly returned to Turkey despite his cries for help on social media. He was detained at Istanbul Ataturk Airport and was taken to a police station for interrogation, on Saturday. Sökmen called for “help from the world”

The administrators of 5 villages in Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist were dismissed from their posts after their constituency voted for No in the Apr 16 presidential referendum. In the run up to the referendum, Arif Kahraman, the district governor of Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist was reported to have threatened village headmen to vote Yes in the upcoming presidential

An arrest warrant has been issued for Oklahoma City center Enes Kanter on charges of membership in an armed terrorist organization, Turkish media reports said on Friday. İstanbul Public Prosecutor Can Tuncay, who is overseeing the investigation into Kanter, has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for him. Kanter is accused of using a smart phone

  A Turkish teacher based in Myanmar called for “help from the world” in a video recording he posted on social media minutes before he was handed over to Turkish authorities at Yangon International Airport by Myanmar police on Friday. “I am calling everyone. Please help me. I am in the terminal area. They are

The Ankara Governor’s Office has prohibited the lighting of fires and signing of songs in street protests after sunset in Turkey’s capital city. A statement posted on the website of the governor’s office on Friday said protestors have been lighting fires and singing songs in the streets of Ankara until late hours and that this

At least 43 more companies were seized over coup charges between Apr 1 and May 24, bringing the total number of companies under the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund’s (TMSF) control to 922. The companies in question were targeted as part of a sweeping state crackdown against the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of

Mediha Olgun, opposition Sözcü daily’s online editor and Gökmen Ulu, the newspaper’s Izmir reporter were arrested over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants last week for Sözcü’s license holder Burak Akbay, finance manager Yonca Yücekaleli, Olgun, and Ulu. With Akbay currently in exile, an Istanbul