Today In Crackdown

The state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has announced that a total of 691 companies have been seized by the government due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The seized companies include giant holdings such as Boydak Holding, Kaynak Holding, Koza İpek Holding and Fi Yapı, according to a statement on the TMSF […]

Turkey’s Directorate General of Press and Information (BYEGM) has denied a request by former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar for renewal of his permanent press card due to “national security policy.” According to a statement from the BYEGM, Dündar’s request was rejected due to national security policy, and a decision of whether Dündar’s press card

Barbaros Muratoğlu, Ankara representative of Doğan Holding was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. His detention came only days after pro-government Akşam editor-in-chief Murat Kelkitlioğlu leveled a series of accusations claiming Muratoğlu was linked to the the movement. Turkey survived

The Ankara Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into 192 judges and prosecutors as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the government accuse of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has suspended 191 judges and prosecutors who

Turkish authorities declared curfew in six villages of Silvan district in southeastern Diyarbakır province on Tuesday. According to a statement by Silvan district governor’s office, the curfew was declared in Eskiköy, Susuz, Gündüzköy, Otluk, Karahacı and Üçbasamak villages of Silvan. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked security personnel patrolling the Silvan district of Diyarbakır province

An Aydın prosecutor said that investigations into a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 helped them pursue previous, unrelated investigations, in an interview with a local newspaper that appeared on Monday. Aydın prosecutor Hakan Arslan told the Aydın Denge daily that there was an order to investigate coup involvement in Aydın and that

At a time when reports are circulating about government plans to stage riots in Turkey’s prisons to eliminate political prisoners, panic broke out over a fire in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison on Tuesday which turned out to have been caused by an inmate setting himself on fire. Media reports said a fire broke out on Tuesday

The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) stated on Monday that 2,054 engineers and architects in total have been dismissed from state jobs by government decrees issued as part of a state of emergency declared following a failed coup attempt on July 15. In a statement on Monday, TMMOB underlined that 2,054

ECE Türkiye, a subsidiary of the Hamburg-based ECE, owned by the Otto family, was forced to cancel a management contract for a Turkish shopping mall after the Turkish government installed a trustee to run the company that owned the mall due to alleged links on the part of its management to the Gülen movement. ECE

“My husband is in jail. He was the only person who took care of me. What am I supposed to do now? The cancer I have is already stage 4.  I was laid off from my job with the recent gov’t decree. I have to pay rent. I have to look after our two children.