Today In Crackdown

A crowd attacked a building belonging to Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), party officials said Wednesday. Pictures from the scene appeared to show the HDP building in Denizli vandalized and racist, sexist graffiti drawn on walls. The mob also stole TL 300 and 2 laptops from the building. This is not the first time […]

Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist Orhan Kemal Cengiz is facing consecutive life sentence on coup charges along with 29 other Zaman daily journalists and executives, although he was not a columnist for Zaman, news website Aktifhaber reported on Wednesday. According to the report, despite the fact that the headlines of articles of columnists

An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks three consecutive life sentences for 30 individuals who include journalists and executives from the now-closed Zaman daily on coup charges. The Zaman daily, which was affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement, was first seized by the Turkish government in March 2016 and the closed down by a

Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, was detained during a security check in the southern province of Hatay on Tuesday. The reason for the detention of the 35-year-old journalist was not immediately clear. Italian authorities have reportedly taken action to secure the release of the journalist who travelled to

A Turkish citizen in the Netherlands casted his/her vote for Turkey’s referendum with an attached note saying that he got sacked as a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy of hatred. Ballot boxes at Turkish embassies are now open for voting of those living abroad while citizens in Turkey are set to cast their

At least 5 people were detained in Kutahya as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Monday. The detainees also included S.B., a Turkmenistan citizen studying at Dumlupinar University Detention warrants were issued for two more people in the same investigation. Meanwhile,

An indictment prepared against 77 academics from the Bolu-based Abant İzzet Baysal University (AIBU) seeks up to 15 years in prison each of 75 and up to 22 years for the remaining two. The 72-page indictment accuses M.Y. and K.G. of leading a terrorist organization, a crime in the Turkish law that carries a potential penalty of a prison

The 40-year-old marble cutter Huseyin Korkmaz has joined others who were arrested for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Korkmaz was detained when he swore at Erdogan during Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) referendum campaign activities in Tekirdag’s Ergani district. According to Turkish media, Korkmaz grabbed a mic at the campaign bus immediately after other campaigners departed

A Bursa court has ruled for the continuation of the arrest for Seyfettin Yiğit, a prosecutor who was found dead in a prison bathroom in September of last year. The court was responding to a request for Yiğit’s release seven months after he died in prison, according to the Haberdar media outlet. The 47-year-old public