Today In Crackdown

A total of 651 people were detained in operations targeting the Gülen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday. The detentions and arrests took place between Apr 10-17. The statement further revealed that 711 were detained for allegedly aiding or abetting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) […]

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Muharrem İnce claimed on Friday that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is planning to dismiss 300,000 more state employees once the “yes” camp comes in with a victory in Sunday’s referendum on a constitutional package that will change country’s system of governance to an executive

Ökkeş Namlı, mayor of the Düziçi Municipality in Osmaniye province, has threatened to fire municipal workers if they vote “no” in a referendum on Sunday  on a switch to an executive presidency, the haberdar news website reported on Thursday. Speaking in the presence of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies, AKP member Namlı said:

As political tension escalates ahead of a critical referendum on Sunday on a switch to an executive presidency, a worker at the Istanbul Municipality said if the constitutional amendments are approved, naysayers’ wives and daughters will be halal, or permitted, as plunder and sex slaves for “yes” voters. “Dear friends. The CHP [Republican People’s Party]

The German Foreign Ministry has announced that a total of 100 German citizens have been barred from entering Turkey since the beginning of 2017 on the grounds that they pose a threat to public security, according to a report in Deutsche Welle on Friday. The ministry, however, did not specify how many of the German

A group of unknown people have attacked two bus, a van and a number of local offices of the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) in Antalya. According to Haberdar news portal on Saturday, the vehicles and front sides of some CHP offices in Antalya’s central district of Muratpasa was painted with black spray. The

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 1358 people were detained, with 381 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the Gülen movement and Turkey’s Kurdish minority over the past 15 days, according

Turkish authorities will deport Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, who was detained during a security check in the southern province of Hatay on Tuesday, according to Turkish media reports. Relying on Italian diplomatic sources in Turkey, some Turkish media outlets reported that the Italian journalist will be deported

An indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office is seeking three consecutive life sentences for 150 military officers at the Land Forces Command over their alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The officers are accused of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, being members of an armed terror