Today In Crackdown

Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) downgraded status of Antalya Regional Court of Justice head Şenol Demir and appointed him as Konya Judge after he refused to accept use of ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities believe is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement, as evidence of crime. According […]

An İstanbul court has ruled for the arrest of Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven over a report that appeared on the daily’s website about the recent traffic death of Denizli Chief Prosecutor Mustafa Alper in Denizli province, Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, Güven, who was taken to the Istanbul Courthouse in

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, the two educators who have been on hunger strike for 67 days to protest their dismissals under post-coup emergency rules, are being harassed with food pictures sent by supporters of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media. “We dedicate the 66th day of our ‘hunger’ to the public labourers

Turkey has adopted a new thuggish tactic in persecuting its critics and opponents abroad, the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) said in a recent report, elaborating on the methods Turkish government has been using to this end. Abductions, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial renditions, and profiling and harassment of expatriates are among the ways Turkish government institutions

Önder Asan, a private school teacher who was allegedly abducted by unidentified people in April 1, turned out to be in police custody in Ankara Police Department’s Bureau of Organized Crimes, his wife said on Saturday. According to a Tweet by Fatma Asan, wife of Önder Asan, her husband was kept in an unknown place

A total of 50 noncommissioned officers in 14 provinces have been detained by police over links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According several Turkish media outlets, as part of the investigation based in Edirne province, simultaneous raids were conducted in 14 Turkish

Arab students who have previously studied at universities shut down by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, are being “detained and threatened with deportation” by Turkish police, according to Al-Fanar Media news portal. Al-Fanar media reporters have interviewed several Syrian and Yemeni students who have previously been

The three Turkish nationals detained over controversial charges in Malaysia have been deported to Turkey, according to police chief Khalid Abu Bakar. Malay police detained Turgay Karaman, the headmaster of a Turkish school in the city of Ipoh; businessman İhsan Aslan and academic İsmet Özçelik over their alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and

Oğuz Güven, the internet editor of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper was detained in early Friday. “I am being taken into custody,” Güven tweeted without elaborating on the charges raised against him. Cumhuriyet’s editor in chief Murat Sabuncu was, in early November 2016, arrested along with 8 other Cumhuriyet columnists and executives for allegedly committing crime on behalf

An İstanbul court ruled on Friday for the arrest of one of the two historians for whom detention warrants were issued for insulting the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Doğan News Agency has reported. The court arrested historian Süleyman Yeşilyurt on charges of “insulting the memory of Atatürk” and “inciting people