Today In Crackdown

A popular Twitter user posting under the name “JeansBiri” was arrested on Tuesday for starting a hashtag on the social media platform about a call from a pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) figure for the arming of party members. Last week the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a detention warrant for the Twitter user, […]

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 39,378 people and detained another 92,607 since the failed coup attempt of July 15, Turkish Justice Min Bekir Bozdağ said on Monday. According to a report appeared in the news website Diken on Tuesday, Bozdağ said people have been arrested/detained over their alleged links to Gülen movement,

A delegation of European politicians was not allowed to pay a visit to the imprisoned co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, in Edirne on Monday. The group, led by Sergei Staishev, president of the Party of European Socialists, the second-largest party in the European Parliament, comprised deputies from five countries. The delegation

As part of a post-coup-attempt purge, the Turkish government has dismissed a total of 9977people from state institutions, and suspended another 5434 with new state of emergency decrees issued on Tuesday. According to the two new decrees, numbered 677 and 678, a total 9977 staff members, including 1988 from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), and

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. According to Turkish news agencies, at least 88 people were arrested, while 76 others were detained on No 21, 2016. Police carried out the operations in at least

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 20 prison employees including the warden of Silivri Prison in İstanbul over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. As part of the İstanbul-based operation, police conducted simultaneous raids across eight provinces and searched 25 locations. The detention of the Silivri Prison warden, identified only by his

Selçuk Kozağaçlı, president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), was detained in Ankara along with three other lawyers on Monday soon after he talked about acts of torture being committed in Turkey’s prisons. Kozağaçlı recently came to public attention with his remarks suggesting that people who were jailed as part of an ongoing crackdown

Turkish police on Monday detained Ahmet Türk, a former deputy and also co-mayor of the Mardin Municipality, and Emin Irmak, Artuklu district mayor, as part of a terrorism probe. The mayors were detained at home as part of an investigation overseen by the Mardin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Both Türk and Irmak were recently removed

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the past couple of weeks and has seized the administration of 28 municipalities, jailing 37 Kurdish mayors in eastern Turkey. On Nov. 4, Turkish courts arrested nine HDP deputies including the party’s co-chairs, who were detained in

As Pakistan has recently decided to expel 108 Turkish teachers from 28 international schools across the country, video footages showing tens of Pakistani students and parents protesting the deportation order in several branches across Pakistan went viral on the social media on Saturday. In the footages, several hundred students in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi are