Today In Crackdown

A total of 65 civilians, including businessmen and housewives, were detained as part of ongoing operations throughout Saturday targeting the alleged followers of the Gülen movement due to their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. According to pro-gov’t Sabah daily, the operations, which were based in the western province of İzmir, were […]

Özlem Yüzgeç, the wife of one of the prosecutors who conducted a corruption probe that became public in late 2013 and implicated senior members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, was arrested in Kahramanmaraş province over use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. Yüzgeç is the wife of Mehmet Yüzgeç, one

Onur Erden and Uğur Gültekin will have spent a total of 10 months in jail for refusing to serve in the Turkish army. According to a report released by Bianet news portal on March 23, the Gelibolu 2nd Corps Commandership Military Court handed down the sentence to two “conscientious objectors” on the grounds that they declared

Detention warrants were issued on Friday for a total of 93 people, including 33 Capital Markets Board (SPK) employees, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which Turkish government accuse of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Ten SPK employees were detained, eight were released pending trial and 15 others were

Greece received asylum applications from a total of 236 Turkish citizens since a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a story in Kathimerini daily on Friday. According to the daily, this number was only 12 in 2013, 41 in 2014, and 43 in 2015. In a similar vein, according to a recent

44 of the 84 detained employees of Turkey’s largest defense electronics company ASELSAN were arrested over Gülen movement links and coup involvement of July 15 in Ankara on Thursday. On March 9, the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 84 people working at ASELSAN, connected to the country’s armed forces foundation, for alleged

Arrests warrants were issued for 60 previously dismissed police officers as 17 others were arrested in a separate operation over allefed use of a smart phone application named ByLock. ByLock is onsidered a “secret messaging system” among Gülen movement sympathizers. The application was available for all on the internet. The police officers were arrested in province