Today In Crackdown

At least seventy-five civilians have been sent by Turkish courts to jail in four major Turkish provinces over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish gov’t accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. In Kayseri, ten businessmen were sent to prison on Saturday over their alleged use of a smart

A total of 262 Turkish diplomatic and military personnel have applied for political asylum in Germany, Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. According to the report, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has not finalized any of the applications. Citing a rise in the acceptance rate of applications from Turkey, the news magazine underlined

Former Zaman journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya has been taken into custody anew 2 days after he was released from 8-month-long imprisonment. Zaman’s former local news representative in the southern province of Antalya, Çetinkaya was put in a pre-trial detention on July 27, 2016 as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against critics. He was released on

BengüTürk TV Editor-in-Chief Murat Ide said on Mar 30 that he was fired for resisting against saying “Yes” in the upcoming presidential referendum that is expected to boost President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power. BengüTürk is a private TV channel known to be close to the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the leader of which has offered

A Turkish prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 90 soldiers, including high ranking military officers, as part of an ongoing investigation into the Gülen movement, which is accused by Turkish government of orchestrating a failed coup in Turkey last summer. According to a Friday report by CNNTürk, 50 of the wanted soldiers have so far been

21 out of 26 journalists who have been in pre-trial detention for eight months were released pending trial by İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court on Friday. The journalists were accused of membership in the Gülen movement, which has been designated as a terror organization by the Turkish government and accused of orchestrating a failed coup

Turkish government has been spying on its own citizens in 35 countries with the help of its diplomatic outposts, according to German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. “The diplomatic cables contain information collected by Turkish diplomatic outposts in 35 countries,” said an article on the magazine on Friday. Der Spiegel has become the latest of media

All 21 journalists who had been in pre-trial detention for eight months and were to be released pending trial on Friday were arrested again early on Saturday without ever having been freed, the pro-government Hürriyet daily has reported. The İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court had ruled on Friday for the release of 21 out of

Turkey’s global food giant Ülker withdrew a controversial advertising as pro-government social media users as well as some columnists claimed that secret messages in the commercial usher in an impending military coup, on Friday. Turkey survived a military coup attempt that killed more than 250 people on July 15, 2016 while the government launched a