Today In Crackdown

An Antalya court has re-arrested a total of 16 individuals including journalists and police officers over  their alleged links to  Gülen movement shortly after their release by another court last week. The Antalya 2nd High Criminal Court last week released 20 police officers and eight journalists on judicial probation. According to Hürriyet daily, the Antalya 3rd […]

The judge panel who unsuccessfully ruled to release 21 journalists from have been suspended. Judges İbrahim Lorasdağı, Barış Cömert and Necla Yeşilyurt Gülbiçim ruled on Friday for the release of 21 out of 29 journalists who were accused of membership in the Gülen movement, which has been designated as a terror organization by the Turkish

As Turkey has been going after family members of the suspects it failed to locate, A. Öksüz, the brother of the major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, was denied request to change his surname. An assistant professor at the faculty of Turkish literature at Karabuk University, A. Öksüz was dismissed from his job as part of

A total of 113,260 were detained as part of investigations into the Gulen movement after July 15 coup attempt, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced on Sunday. The government put the blame for the coup attempt on the movement. Of them, 47,155 were further taken in pre-trial detention or what most Turks call arrest, Soylu said.

At least 15 people the central Anatolian province of Kayseri were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Friday. Kayseri police carried out operation to round up two employees from the local tax office; one from the Revenue Office; two

The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into Turkey’s largest food producer, Ülker, over a TV commercial that was perceived as a second coup attempt message by supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Metin Külünk said in a Twitter message early on Saturday. “The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office