Today In Crackdown

As Turkey gears up for a referendum on April 16 to vote for a switch to an executive presidency, two members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were attacked by a father and son during a “no” campaign in the western province of İzmir. The Cumhuriyet daily reported the latest attack on “naysayers” […]

At least six students were detained by Istanbul police during a demonstration held to protest the government’s post-coup purge of academics on Thursday. Some 150 people, mostly students, gathered near the Istanbul University’s Beyazıt campus and chanted slogans against the latest government decree that has left 330 more academics unemployed as part of post-coup witch

Turkey has been operating an informer network via its embassy in Vienna that targets critics of President Tayyip Erdogan, according to an Austrian opposition lawmaker, Peter Pilz. Pilz also said the controversial network promotes Erdoğan’s policies and receives payments from Ankara. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Pilz had sent documents to the police detailing the

Two couples were detained along with four children in Edirne while they were on their way to escape to Greece, on Monday. Gendarmerie rounded up former Family Ministry employee B.K.; his wife, a former academic V.K; a former auditor at Labor Ministry, A.T; and his wife, a former doctor T.Ç. near Kadıdondurma village. The four are

A total of fifty businessmen, housewives and police officers were detained as part of ongoing operations throughout Monday targeting the followers of the Gülen movement due to their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. The operations, which were based in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, were conducted across 6 provinces, including İstanbul, Gaziantep, Mersin, Osmaniye

Two more relatives of US-based Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen have been arrested in the Black Sea province of Trabzon. According to pro-gov’t Sabah daily, seven out of 14 detainees were arrested on charges of membership in a terrorist organization on Monday.  Among those were Gülen’s two nephews, A.G. and R.G. The other arrestees were identified

A total of sixty businessmen, housewives and teachers were detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, the pro-gov’t Sabah daily reported on Tuesday. Detention warrants were issued for 73 Antalya individuals early on Tuesday. Hours later, police teams carried out simultaneous operations in Antalya

An İstanbul court on Monday accepted an indictment against 29 Turkish journalists, who were arrested after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, over alleged membership in a “terrorist organization.” The indictment, prepared by İstanbul prosecutor Murat Çağlak, calls for 10-year jail sentences for the journalists, most of whom worked for media outlets affiliated with

Seventy members and administrators from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained in İstanbul on Monday following raids on their homes. After İstanbul prosecutors issued detention warrants for 104 HDP members and administrators, police teams on Monday conducted raids in 104 locations and detained as many as 70 people. Special forces units and helicopters

An İstanbul court on Monday accepted an indictment against 235 police officers, who were arrested after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, for having bank accounts at the now-closed Gülen-affiliated Bank Asya and for using a smart phone application known as ByLock. The application is considered by the Turkish government to be “proof” of