Today In Crackdown

Pro-government journalist Cemil Barlas tweeted on Monday that the 4 years old child of the recently-captured main suspect in deadly gun attack on Istanbul’s Reina night club should be used to get the father talk. Police rounded up Abdulkadir Masharipov, the alleged attacker who killed 39 people at Reina, along with four others in İstanbul’s […]

Ünal Tanık, the editor in chief of the government-closed Rotahaber news portal was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of organizing a coup attempt on July 15, on Tuesday. Police detained Tanık in Yalova province and were ordered to take him to İstanbul for his testimony. The

The European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre (EU INTCEN) said in a recent report dated Aug. 24 that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan planned to purge opposition forces in the military before July’s attempted coup. EU’s intelligence-sharing bureau said the coup attempt was a result of fear among Erdoğan’s critics in the military. Intcen said it is

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday called on Turkish banks to open up the “loan taps” to entrepreneurs or face the consequences. Speaking at his lavish palace in Ankara during a ceremony, Erdoğan threatened Turkish banks, saying, “If the owners in the [banking] sector do not open up the taps of loans for investors, they

A total of six Turkish journalists have been kept in police custody since Dec. 25, according to the Evrensel daily. Police teams detained the six journalists — DİHA news manager Ömer Çelik, one of the editors of the Diken news portal, Tunca Öğreten, the Birgün daily’s accounting supervisor Mahir Kanaat, DİHA reporter Metin Yoksu, the

In screenshots from a new video reportedly released by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a militant in black is seen freely walking around İstanbul’s famed tourist sites, including the Bosporus and the 400-year-old Sultan Ahmed Mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque. In the video an ISIL militant is shown from

The father of Turan Görüryılmaz, a journalist and a former host the for now-closed Bugün TV, has passed away while his son failed to show up in funerals, fearing persecution at the hands of Turkish government, which has proved to be the biggest jailer of journalists across the world. Görüryılmaz has been living in exile

A document recently issued by a prosecutor’s office in Trabzon stated that there is no ground to investigate a torture complaint since there is impunity under state of emergency for police officers. A few minor Turkish news portals published the document on Sunday displaying the reasoning for dropping charges against police officers who allegedly tortured

Turkey’s Education Ministry is in the process of including the concept of jihad in compulsory school curricula, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Speaking during a press conference on Friday, Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz explained the details of the new curriculum to members of the press. The new curriculum, which will be finalized in February,

One of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Nursel Aydoğan, has been given a prison sentence of four years, eight months on charges of committing crimes on behalf of a terror organization despite not being a member of it. The Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court handed down the prison sentence to