Today In Crackdown

A total of 236 out of 530 military officers for whom detention warrants were issued last week across 58 provinces for their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock have been detained. The İstanbul 11th Penal Court of Peace last week issued detention warrants for 280 military officers and 250 noncommissioned officers as […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as the parliamentary speaker İsmail Kahraman expressed their support to any government plan to reintroduce the death penalty, on Tuesday. “We don’t want dogs in the Parliament, we want death penalty,” people chanted slogans during Erdoğan’s speech at a ceremony to inaugurate the newly-constructed Eurasia Tunnel, that connects Istanbul’s

Turkey has since beginning of this year paid a total of TL 2.4 million in rewards to citizens who have provided the state with useful information about others who are suspected of having committed a crime, according to figures from the Finance Ministry. The government paid nothing in January; TL 50,000 in February; TL 56,000

The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, Zühtü Arslan, has said justice does not necessarily require that everyone in society be treated equally in every situation. Speaking at a conference at the Constitutional Court building in Ankara on Monday, Arslan said: “Justice does not call for everyone to be treated equally in every situation. To the

A group of protesters in Konya’s Ereğli district placed a huge Turkish flag over the walls of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office, chanting religious slogans, on Sunday. Protesters used a cherry-picker to reach out to HDP’s Ereğli office at the third floor of a building and hung a giant Turkish flag that covered

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 352 people were arrested, while 968 others were detained over the past 7 days, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that a total of 924 people have been detained in operations targeting alleged supporters of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since twin bomb blasts in İstanbul on Dec. 10. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that the detainees are being accused of aiding and abetting the PKK.

Detained as part of an investigation into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), F.D. was stripped of her headscarf and is not allowed to pray in the holding cell at Istanbul’s Vatan Police Station, a lawyer representing her told ETHA news agency. “My client F.D. had her husband and 17-year-old son beaten up when police raided

Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt continues targeting small and large business owners and main indicators prove that cruel purge is bad for the economy as a whole. The unemployment rate, according to most recent data, jumped to 11.3 percent in September standing at a six-year high. Meanwhile, the Turkish lira lost 17 percent of its value

Immediately following the discovery that the gunman who shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday evening was a police officer, the pro-government media was quick to put the blame on the Gülen movement. The gunman, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, chanted Islamist slogans also used by radical terrorist organization the Al Nusra Front after he shot