Today In Crackdown

The co-mayors of Şırnak’s Uludere district, Zeynep Üren and Yunus Ürek from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were dismissed from their posts on Friday after a brief detention yesterday. The DBP co-mayors were targeted in a recent investigation that links the politicians with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkey’s Ministry of Interior Affairs

An Ankara court has ruled to block Ozguruz.org website, a German-based online news portal launched on Jan. 24 by exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar. The website was blocked only 2 days after Dündar’s official announcement. “I was wondering when they would block it. Those who banned an unpublished book, blocked a website just to start… They think so…

The tweets of renowned cartoonist Carlos Latuff have been withheld in Turkey after he drew five children who were left alone in tears in front of an Ankara prison after their mother was detained while they were visiting their father in prison on Jan. 23. Latuff tweeted on Thursday that he received screenshots from Turkish

Police officers attempted to detain university students who sang a song on a ferry criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian policies and calling on people to say “No” in an upcoming referendum on constitutional amendments extending Erdoğan’s power, while they were leaving a ferry dock in İstanbul on Monday. According to the Kollektifler.net news portal,

Former Mardin Co-mayor Ahmet Türk, who was arrested on Dec 19 and transferred to a prison in Elazığ province on Jan. 17, was hospitalized on Wednesday as his overall physical condition is not good, his lawyer said. Speaking with the Bianet news portal on Wednesday, Zeynep Ceren Boztoprak said Türk was taken to Fırat University’s

Turkish police detained the co-mayors of the Uludere district of the southeastern province of Şırnak early on Jan. 26 as part of a terrorism-linked probe. According to a tweet posted by the pro-Kurdish DİHA reporter Faruk Encu, the co-chairs Zeynep Üren and Yunus Ürek have been detained after Şırnak Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a warrant as part

“I will get you arrested,” construction firm Folkart Yapı Chairman Mesut Sancak has yelled at local journalist Nivent Kurtuluş who reported on the businessman’s allegedly corrupt business ties, threatening her with tightened security measures in the aftermath of the coup attempt. Mesut Sancak, also the brother of a pro-government media tycoon Ethem Sancak,  is accused

The Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Ahmet Yıldırım were detained on Wednesday as part of the crackdown against Turkey’s Kurdish political movement. Earlier on Wednesday, HDP deputies Mehmet Emin Adıyaman and İmam Taşçıer were detained. All of the deputies were released after their testimonies during the day. Baydemir had served as mayor

As part of the ongoing purge in Turkey, detention warrants were issued on Wednesday for 52 dismissed members of the country’s Supreme Court of Appeals as 26 of them were detained in Ankara on same day. The jurists had already been purged by the decrees issued under state of emergency that has been effective in