Today In Crackdown

Some 25 people raided the headquarters of Public Employees Union (Kamu-Sen) and threatened the chairman İsmail Koncuk after beating private security personnel at the building on Tuesday. The angry crowd chanted slogans against Koncuk’s recent objection to the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans to boost his presidential powers. According to Yeniçağ daily, the group had […]

Namesake with Turkey’s major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, a Kahramanmaraş man changed his surname after he was detained on multiple occasions. The owner of a grocery store in 8,000-people Andırın district in Kahramanmaraş, Öksüz was detained by law enforcement agencies for several times, which have been on manhunt for the alleged coup plotter who was

Mehmet Şahin Işık, who was earlier briefly detained for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been given 14-month jail sentence over same the charge. A day after a deadly ISIL bombing killed 107 people near Ankara railway station in Oct. 2015., Işık joined several others to protest the incident in the Aegean province

Azeri journalist Mahir Zeylanov has launched a fundraising campaign for five children who were left alone in tears in front of Sincan Prison in Ankara after their mother was detained while they were visiting their father in prison. In a video posted Monday on social media by Mahmut Tanal, a deputy from the Republican People’s

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the seizure of all assets of Turkish businessman Akın İpek and his mother, Melek İpek, over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The Ankara 6th Penal Court of Peace ordered that all assets belonging to the İpek family to be transferred to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund

A total of 367 people were dismissed from state institutions, according to a new government decree. Turkish government issued four new decrees –682, 683, 684 and 685– under the post-coup State of Emergency on early Monday. While 367 were dismissed from public jobs, On4 TV and Kanal 12 channels were closed down. Meanwhile 124 people

Nineteen more soldiers from the Turkish Armed Forces were arrested in Antalya on Monday evening on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for using a smart phone application named ByLock. In addition, 14 of 15 police officers under detention were arrested in Denizli on Monday for allegedly using Bylock. Twelve police officers who had

Turkey has demanded help from Switzerland to pursue critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a bilateral agreement on intelligence sharing between the two countries. According to the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, Folco Galli, a spokesperson for the Swiss Justice Ministry confirmed that Turkey has filed nearly 6 request to go after social media users