Today In Crackdown

At least 34 people have been detained during demonstrations to mark 44th anniversary of Deniz Gezmiş and his friends’ execution by the government on charges of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order in 1972. Three student leaders Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan were hanged at a prison in Ankara’s Ayaş district for attempting […]

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Saturday said 149,833 people have been investigated and 48,636 have been jailed as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen movement since a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. Providing recent figures about a purge that the government has been conducting against Gülen movement sympathizers, Bozdağ said 149,833 people

Turkish authorities have ordered the removal of Arabic signboards in a number of provinces where a large number of Syrian refugees live on the grounds that they cause “visual pollution.” Turkey today is home to 3 million refugees, mostly Syrian. Arabic signboards have so far been removed in Gaziantep’s İslahiye district, Adana province and Hatay’s

Three more Turkish journalists have been sent to prison on charges of “disseminating terrorist propaganda” and “membership in an armed terrorist organization,” the T24 news portal reported on Friday. Ozan Kaplanoğlu, editor of the online platform @BursaMuhalif, was arrested by a Bursa court late on Friday on accusation of “spreading propaganda in favor of a

Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Şamil Gülen was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Thursday. 36-year-old nephew was taken into custody in Kocaeli province and taken to neighboring city of Sakarya for interrogation. Şamil is accused of being an “movement imam” for

O.G., a lawyer representing his colleague D.U. who was earlier detained for his/her alleged use of mobile app ByLock, was taken into custody over same charges. ByLock is a smartphone application that Turkish authorities claim to be the top communication tool among followers of the Gülen movement which the government accuses of masterminding the July

At least 32 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their posts were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Friday. Kayseri police raided homes of the teachers in question who are accused of having used ByLock, a smartphone

Turkey’s top judicial body, the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), has dismissed 107 more judges and prosecutors over alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. The decision for the expulsion of the judges and prosecutors was made at the

Eleven Turkish nationals who were reportedly detained in Saudi Arabia on March 15 have been kept in a hotel in Madinah for weeks, waiting to be deported to Turkey, according to a letter sent to Turkeypurge.com. The letter revealed that the victims, who have links to the Gülen movement in Turkey, were detained in four

An Ankara court blocked access to 40 Twitter, 2 Facebook accounts along with 4 websites over their postings on alleged government fraud in the Apr 16 referendum, on Tuesday. A constitutional amendment that gives more power to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was approved by a slight majority on April 16, although debates over alleged voting