Today In Crackdown

Doğan news agency has dismissed its reporter Kadir Çetinçalı who defended Hakan Şükür during a general assembly meeting to expel former star along with hundreds of others from the club. A total of 2,750 members were expelled from Galatasaray football club over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July […]

Turkish police teams on Monday detained 16 academics from the Diyarbakır-based Dicle University who were sacked from their jobs under a government decree issued on Saturday. The academics, most of whom are professors, were detained following police raids on their homes and offices. Some of the detained academics were reportedly among the signatories of a

At least 165 individuals were detained during the celebrations held on Sunday across Turkey to mark May Day, according to the İstanbul Security General Directorate. A similar statement by the İstanbul Governor’s Office said that riot police detained at least 207 people during the celebrations throughout Sunday. Celebrations were held across Turkey to mark May Day under strict

Turkey’s popular TV wedding programs were banned as a result of a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rules on Saturday. “In radio and television broadcasting services, such programs in which people are introduced to find a friend. … cannot be permitted,” many international news outlets had wide coverage of this particular decree. The Turkish government

Access to Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey as a result of “a provisional administrative order” imposed by the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK). The Internet Freedom watchdog, the Turkey Blocks said it has verified restrictions affecting the Wikipedia online encyclopedia in Turkey. “A block affecting all language editions of the website detected at 8:00AM local time Saturday

The Turkish government has issued two new state of emergency decrees, known as KHKs, dismissing 3,974 people including 484 academics from state institutions while banning “wedding match” programs on TV, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report 1,037, including a general from the Turkish military, 1,127 from the Justice Ministry, 216 from

A Kirsehir court sentenced Bekir C., a teacher and the former local representative of the government-closed educators’ union, Aktif-Sen, to 6 years and three months in prison, on Apr 25. He was accused of sending his children to preparatory schools affiliated with the Gulen movement, taking loans from Bank Asya and acting as an executive

Turkish government has been systematically and deliberately hailing women as part of a fear and intimidation campaign in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, the Sweden-based Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) said in a recent report on Apr 27. Titled “Jailing Women in Turkey, Systematic Campaign of Persecution and Fear,” the report documents