Today In Crackdown

Dokuz Eylül University’s Faculty of Law refused to give permission for Cem Toker, the former head of Turkey’s Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) to deliver a speech on the upcoming presidential referendum. “They did not let us talk even though we have mere 0.06 percent electoral vote,” Toker tweeted on Thursday. The incident came amid similar […]

Another 63 police officers who were earlier dismissed from profession have been put under arrest over their alleged use of ByLock mobile application. Turkish authorities believe ByLock is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. The Istanbul-based investigation sought arrest of 72 former police officers, but the court in charge jailed 63 of

Turkey’s Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has dismissed 202 more judges and prosecutors over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which Turkish authorities accuse of being behind a failed coup attempt in July last of year. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the decision was taken during a HSYK meeting on Friday evening. With

İstanbul and Ankara governors have announced on Tuesday that official celebrations planned for the spring festival of Nevruz have been cancelled due to security reasons. According to Diken news portal, the governor’s offices expressed as a justification for the cancelations concerns about possible “tension and provocations between people who will participate in the celebrations and

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 102 people working at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Thirty of the 102 people for whom detention warrants were issued were detained in simultaneous operations across 27 provinces as part of the Ankara-based investigation

A popular Twitter user with the user name “bıbıcımsıfırladım” has been arrested by an İstanbul court for posting tweets that praise the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued on Feb. 22 a detention warrant for the Twitter user,

Turkey’s Education Ministry has removed the name of world-famous Turkish pianist Fazıl Say from the draft curriculum of the music lesson in middle school, according to Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Zeynep Altıok. Altıok has submitted a parliamentary question meant for Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz in which she asked why Say’s name was taken out

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced on Thursday that a currently ongoing state of emergency will be extended for three more months and remain in effect until July 20. The state of emergency, known as OHAL, has been in force since July 20 of last year, after Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt on July 15.

Atalay Filiz, on trial for a series of murders in Turkey, said in his defense that one of his victims was a Gülen movement sympathizer and that he would be under arrest if he were alive. Filiz told the court on Thursday that the father of Göktuğ Demiraslan, one of his victims, was a general