Today In Crackdown

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday that in the last six months alone authorities had received complaints from informants of “terrorist propaganda” for 68,774 social media users on Facebook and Twitter. Based on the informants’ complaints, 21,723 social media users have been identified, and 3,681 of them have been detained. A total of […]

A total of 89 Turkish citizens have so far sought asylum from the Norwegian government since a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, a Norwegian newspaper reported on Friday. According to the VG daily, the asylum seekers, including high-ranking military officers, diplomats, teachers and businessmen, said in their applications that they would face arrest

Germany-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) said some of its preachers acted as informants against the sympathizers of the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of attempting a military coup on July 15. Denying any involvement from the beginning, the movement has been complaining that Turkish government is using every means to round up

A total of eighty-four high-ranking military officers have been arrested by a court on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities believe is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. According to the Anadolu News Agency, the İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s office had previously launched an investigation into a total of

A total of 38 police officers were detained in Kars province on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the İhlas news agency has reported. Police officers are detained on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities believe is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. Turkey survived a

A former police chief who served as security manager for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was prime minister has been arrested in Antalya over his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Maksut Karal is being charged with membership in a terrorist organization and involvement in activities on behalf of a terrorist organization. Karal

The Ankara Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities in the city for a period of one month due to security concerns. A statement released by the governor’s office on Tuesday said intelligence had been received suggesting that some terrorist organizations were planning attacks in the Turkish capital.

Two more members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian town of Kayseri, were arrested in İstanbul on Tuesday, with Bekir Boydak jailed and his nephew, Mahmut Sami, put under house arrest, on charges of financing terrorism. A senior family figure had reported their detention earlier on Tuesday as part of an

Hürriyet, the flagship newspaper of the Doğan Media Group, on Tuesday replaced its Washington, D.C., representative, Tolga Tanış, who came under fire by pro-government circles after his reporting on Turkey’s alleged raw materials supply to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Tanış, who has been the Washington representative of the paper for