Today In Crackdown

Pelin Unker, a business reporter with the Istanbul-based Cumhuriyet newspaper, was included in the list of 10 journalists worldwide who face most urgent threats to the press freedom. The list prepared by One Free Press Coalition, a united front of prominent editors and publishers using the significant reach of their editorial and social platforms to […]

Detention warrants were issued for 18 teachers in Turkey’s Ankara as part of a post-coup investigation into the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. The suspects are accused of using Bylock, an encrypted mobile app that Turkish government sees as a communication tool among followers of the Gulen movement. Three out of 18 were detained at the

Ali Balduz, a Turkish man from the southern province of Adana, has been given a prison sentence of 18 years, 8 months for shooting at a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, Balduz attacked the statue located at the garden of a primary school in Adana’s

Suleyman Uzel, a 59-year-old businessman from Turkey’s western province of Denizli was arrested for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Media reported Monday that Uzel was indicted with insulting Erdogan, a charge that carries a sentence of between one and four years. The number of investigations launched on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was

Turkish police on Thursday raided the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır office for the third time, detaining three party members on a hunger strike. Last week police detained seven party officials out of 10 on a hunger strike demanding an end to the “isolation” of imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

A Turkish court ruled on Thursday for a continuation of the pretrial detention of Mehmet Gündem, a veteran Turkish journalist who is accused of taking part in or supporting a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016. Gündem appeared before the İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court for his third hearing on Thursday. The court adjourned proceedings

A total of 42 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement followers in Izmir, media reported Tuesday. The suspects are accused of attempting to form new gatherings among Gulenists after the government cracked down on the followers in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup. Turkish government accuses

Izmir-based Ege University was revealed to be discriminating against those who were dismissed from their jobs as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup. The university’s Graduate School of Social Sciences announced on its website that those removed from the job are not allowed to

Former Bugün columnist and Zaman daily reporter Zafer Özcan was arrested on Thursday in the western province of Manisa over links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Özcan, who has lived in his hometown of Akhisar since the closure by the government of Bugün in February 2016, was detained on a warrant and subsequently arrested by

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday filed a legal complaint against Meral Akşener, chairman of the opposition İyi (Good) Party, for allegedly insulting him, Turkish news outlets reported. Erdoğan filed the complaint due to Akşener’s remarks at a rally in Denizli in the run-up to local elections on March 31. According to Erdoğan lawyer Hüseyin