Today In Crackdown

A total of 963 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 took place between April 3 and 10. As a result of operations targeting left-wing terror organizations, the ministry said 76 suspects had been detained in the […]

Dokuz Eylul University Rectorate has asked all contracted workers at the medical faculty hospital to attend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rally meeting in Izmir ahead of the presidential referendum. Erdogan is scheduled to take floor along with Prime Minister Binali Yildirim at a referendum rally in Izmir’s Gundogdu square on Apr 9. The rectorate issued

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 38 people working for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on allegations that they have links to the Gülen movement. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 which killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately

Emre İper, who works as a finance manager at the Cumhuriyet daily, has been detained over use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. İper was detained in the early hours of Friday following a police raid on his house. ByLock is considered by Turkish authorities to be the top communication tool among followers

The İstanbul Governor’s Office has denied permission to a public rally scheduled to be held by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) ahead of an upcoming referendum on a constitutional reform package. Citing that “there are not enough police officers to maintain security” during the planned rally, the governor’s office also stated that another public meeting was

At least 28 individuals were detained as part of two separate investigations into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of being behind the July 15 coup attempt, on Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 21 people in a Nigde-based probe. While 14 of them have been rounded up in Nigde and Ankara so far,

Diyarbakir-based Amedspor player Deniz Naki has been given suspended prison sentence of 18 months and 22 days due to his social media posts that the judge in charge claimed to be a part of terrorist propaganda. Turkey’s broadened terror laws have targeted a football player this time around as Amedspor’s international midfielder received a suspended

Nismiye Guler and Zeynep Turgut, two reporters for the Diyarbakir-based multilingual online news portal, Gazete Sujin were detained on Thursday. Two reporters were on way to cover an event in Van’s Tatvan district when police rounded them up. Gazete Sujin said it has yet to locate the police station the two are being kept. Turkey

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used excessive force against a group of lawyers protesting against the arrest of attorneys representing the Cumhuriyet daily, one of Turkey’s oldest and secular newspaper with a critical stance. In the 45-second video, viewed hundreds of times on Twitter, at least 10 lawyers were dragged by