Today In Crackdown

A dossier that seeks to remove the parliamentary immunity of seven main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies, including Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has been sent to the Turkish Parliament, local media reported. According to a story on the Gerçek Gündem website on Tuesday, a dossier was sent by the Justice Ministry to Parliament requesting that […]

Turkish government has seized a local convenience store, called Sezer Gida in Mardin’s Kiziltepe district over its alleged links to the Gulen movement and appointed a trustee panel to take over the management. The movement stands accused of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt despite its successive denials of involvement. The trustee panel appointed

Twenty-two staff members at the Kocaeli Police Department were detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation targeting alleged followers of the Gülen movement. The Kocaeli Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office recently issued detention warrants for a total of 29 people at the Kocaeli Police Department, 22 of whom were detained on Wednesday. Turkey survived a

Bursa police rounded up 7 teachers after a raid against a central bookstore in the city on Monday. Detainees also included an accountant and two bookstore personnel. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, 10 suspects were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the

A urology specialist at Yalova State Hospital until he was dismissed on Nov 22, 2016, Bedi Özbay has been sacked from his position again in a recent government decree. Özbay’s name appeared in the list of those dismissed from public payroll in both government decree, No 677 and No 689. The first decree was published

Nearly 200 judge trainees who were recruited after a failed coup attempt in Turkey last summer have been purged by the latest government decree, a main opposition deputy said on Sunday. According to the Gerçek Gündem website, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Barış Yarkadaş said on Sunday that the ruling Justice and

Ayşenur Parıldak, a former reporter from the now-closed Zaman daily, was released early on Tuesday but was re-arrested by the same court hours before leaving prison upon a prosecutor objected to the initial ruling. During a hearing at the Ankara 14th High Criminal Court on Tuesday, the court ruled to release Parıldak pending trial considering

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 2125 people were detained, with 580 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the Gülen movement and Turkey’s Kurdish minority throughout April, according to data compiled

At least 16 people were detained over terror charges in Istanbul in the early hours of Monday, May 1. The operation mostly targets the members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), according to ETHA news agency. ETHA said its reporter Meşale Tolu is also among the detainees.