Today In Crackdown

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 […]

Detention warrants were issued for 265 people including students and what the government calls group leaders, as part of an Ankara-based probe against the Gülen movement on Tuesday. The government accuses the movement for the July 15 coup attempt while the latter denies any role. Police carried out operations in 20 provinces and have rounded

Twenty-one years old university student Ali Gül was arrested days after a video he appeared in as part of a No campaign went viral in the run up to the presidential referendum. The referendum, scheduled to take place on April 16, is set to introduce a shift from parliamentary power to the executive presidency and

The German daily Die Welt has documented the cases of harassment by Turkish consulate officials against certain opposition groups: The Gülen movement, Kurds and Alevites. “Reports of Turkish citizens who are harassed in the consulates are accumulating – not just in Germany,” a recent report said before adding: “For example, a Turkish teacher with an

A Turkish court has banned online access to a column by Ceren Sözeri that had been published in the Evrensel daily last year after pro-government businessman Ethem Sancak, who owns the Esmedya group and is known for his staunch support for Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, filed a complaint against the paper over “the

A total of 966 people were detained in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday. The detentions and arrests took place between March 13 and 20. In operations targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Turkish police detained 70

An Ankara court has blocked access to dozens of Twitter accounts in Turkey which are critical of the Turkish government or President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The decision to block the Twitter accounts was made by the Ankara 2nd Penal Court of Peace. One of the blocked Twitter accounts belongs to Ercan Karakoyun, director of the