Today In Crackdown

At least 13 people including teachers and company executives were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement on Friday. Police carried out operations in Ordu, Şanlıurfa, Kahramanmaraş, Ankara, Karaman and İzmir to detain 21 people with outstanding detention warrants. The detainees are accused of having used ByLock, a smartphone app that Turkish […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against French researcher and political scientist Philippe Moreau Defarges due to his remarks calling for the assassination of Erdoğan. Speaking to French broadcaster BFM on Saturday about the results of a public referendum held in Turkey on April 16, Defarges said since objections from opposition

H.E., a police officer who was suspended from his job late on Thursday due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide on Friday, Cumhuriyet daily reported. “I am not a traitor. I have never betrayed my country,” the officer tweeted hours before he shot himself to death. H.E. was reportedly working at

Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher, has been given a prison sentence of one year, three months for “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization” with comments she made on Turkish television program the Beyaz Show, the Yolculuk.com news portal reported on Wednesday. On the night of Jan 8, 2016, a woman who introduced herself as Ayşe

As part of an ongoing operation launched against the Gülen movement following a failed coup on July 15, the Turkish government has suspended a total of 9,103 police officers, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Wednesday. According to the report, 2,500 of those suspended worked in İstanbul, while 1,350 were in Ankara. Early on Wednesday, Turkish prosecutors

Emine Sennur Sen, the sister-in-law of Turkey’s major coup suspect Adil Oksuz was put under pre-trial arrest on Monday. Sen is accused of having used ByLock, a controversial mobile app that Turkish authorities claim to be the top communication tool among followers of the Gulen movement. A Sakarya court ruled on her arrest as part

Cancelling subscription to the leading pay TV operator, Digiturk has been considered among evidence in post-coup investigations targeting the Gülen movement. An Antalya court ruled on continuation of arrest for a suspect after the judge found out that the arrestee had cancelled his subscription to Digiturk for removing a number of Gülen-linked TV channels from

Aziz T., a former deputy police chief detained near Turkey’s Greek border on Apr 12, was put in pre-trial arrest on Tuesday. Aziz T spent 13 days under police custody. Dismissed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gülen movement, Aziz T was rounded up along with 6 others in Muğla’s Marmaris district

An administrative investigation was launched against the Turkish-language teacher of a minor student who mentioned ‘interfaith dialogue’ during her speech as part of Turkey’s National Sovereignty and Children’s Day on Apr 23. A group of students, mostly primary school pupils, gathered for a symbolic cabinet meeting to mark Children’s Day at the Prime Ministry, on