Today In Crackdown

Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık tweeted early on Thursday morning he was being detained by a group of police officers “for a tweet” he posted. Şık previously came to public attention after he was arrested on March 6 under allegations of membership of the Ergenekon terrorist organization, a clandestine network charged with the attempt to topple […]

Detention warrants were issued on Thursday for a total of 70 police officers over alleged coup involvement. The police conducted operations against suspect colleagues in Ankara and four other provinces. Since a failed coup on July 15, Turkey has dismissed over 100,000 people from public service and arrested more than 40,000 on coup and terror

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 288 people were arrested, while 457 others were detained over the past 5 days, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

Nineteen people including Nevzat Serin, the owner of the Denizli-based Aynes Gıda, are arrested over coup charges and links to Gülen movement on Wednesday. Nevzat Serin and company executives Ayhan Batur, Mehmet Ali Özkan, Tümay Çalışkan, Suat Hamit Salmaşır, Salih Bilgin, Onur Nayman, Mustafa Bağcı, Metin Tural, Mekke Yassıkaya, Mehmet Uysal, Hüseyin Aktürk, Harun Ekinci, Fatih

Trustees were appointed to manage İzmir-based  construction company Teras Yapı as the firm’s owner was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement. The owner Haldun Bilek was taken into custody and an İzmir court ruled on the takeover of his company, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. According to its website, Teras Yapı

The deputy co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Aysel Tuğluk, was arrested by a Diyarbakır court on Wednesday as part of a terror investigation targeting the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (DTK). Tuğluk was detained in Ankara on Monday on charges of alleged terrorism and was taken to Diyarbakır on Tuesday. Following a police interrogation

A man in a small Aegean district of Turkey turned his girlfriend in to the police, alleging she is a Gülen movement sympathizer, after she rejected his proposal of marriage. In Turkey, being an alleged sympathizer of the Gülen movement is grounds for becoming the subject of an investigation, detained or even arrested since the

Police on Tuesday raided several locations across Turkey in line with detention warrants issued for 45 members of the Turkish Naval Forces for having a smart phone application named Bylock, which is considered a communication tool of the Gülen movement. Police had detained five people in İstanbul, one in Hatay and one in Kocaeli as

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s guard detail is reported to have roughed up İzmir’s Kemalpaşa Mayor Arif Uğurlu, a municipal councilor Bünyamin Demir and Professor Behzat Özkan, last week. Erdoğan as well as the Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım attended a ceremony to inaugurate a newly constructed dairy plant in İzmir on Dec. 23. While officials

İştar Gözaydın, a leading law professor, was arrested along with 7 other academics and staff from the now-closed Gediz University as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Tuesday. Gözaydın and her 13 were detained last week on Tuesday. Held under detention