Today In Crackdown

French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province, has been waiting to be deported for 10 days in a prison cell, Turkish media reports said on Friday. Depardon, who was accused of disseminating the propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on […]

Hacı Asım Akgül, a trustee appointed by the government to Van’s Çatak Municipality, has removed the name of former Diyarbakır Bar Association head and human rights activist Tahir Elçi, who was killed in 2015, from a park in the district and named the park after a village guard who died in clashes with the outlawed

An Ankara court on Wednesday accepted an indictment against Turkish comedian Atalay Demirci, who was arrested in August 2016 over his alleged links with the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish authorities of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The indictment drafted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and seeks a consecutive

An Ankara court sent to jail 4 out of 16 Turkish nationals who were deported back to home from Saudi Arabia as part of Turkey’s ever-growing crackdown against the Gülen movement that that has spread to overseas in the recent past. Sixteen Turkish nationals in several Saudi cities were detained on March 15 and were

At least 30 people detained after police intervened into a group, gathered to read a press statement in solidarity with Kemal Gün, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, three protesters who started hunger strike in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt. A group of Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions (KESK) members attempted to read their press

29-year-old Kutahya man, identified as H.T. who had had an arrest warrant issue against him over Gulen links, was caught using fake ID to survive Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt against the movement. The government accuses the Gulen movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt and has detained more than 120,000 people over alleged

Officials from several Turkish institutions were actively involved in the forced return of Malaysian-based Gulen followers last week, according to the Anadolu news agency (AA). Three Turkish nationals — Turgay Karaman, İhsan Aslan and İsmet Özçelik — were detained by Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur and deported to Turkey on May 11. The trio was

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 25 people, 22 of whom are lawyers and three of whom are staff at the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, over their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. The detention warrants were issued by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, and 13 of the individuals

The 26-year-old New Jersey student, Ceren Borazan said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail squeezed her neck before threating to kill her during a protest outside Turkish embassy residence in DC on Tuesday. Borazan told BuzzFeed News that one of Erdoğan’s guards threatened her by saying: “I’m going to kill you, you’re dead, you are gone.” He

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security guards attacked a group of people who gathered outside the Turkish embassy residence in the US capital to protest his policies back home. Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump in a scheduled gathering on Tuesday. During his visit to the Turkish embassy residence in Washington DC after the meeting,