Today In Crackdown

The wife of a Calgary imam told The Globe and Mail daily on Tuesday that her husband is being held in solitary confinement in Turkey for three months and she is worried about his well-being. Davud Hanci, an imam who holds Canadian and Turkish citizenship, was arrested in July shortly after the failed coup attempt […]

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 154 people were arrested, while 197 others were detained over the past 48 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

Twenty out of 31 Democratic Regions Party (DBP) members in the southeastern province of Mardin who had been detained last week were arrested on Saturday. Among those arrested was the party’s provincial co-chairperson in Mardin, Ahmet Eken. The DBP members were detained following simultaneous raids in their residences as part of an investigation conducted by

Van Mayor Bekir Kaya, who was elected on the ticket of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2014 local elections, was taken to İstanbul’s Silivri Prison after a Van court ruled for his arrest on Friday. Counterterrorism police raided the Van municipal offices on Thursday and conducted searches of the premises as part

As many as 70 academics including professors, associate professors and research assistants from the İstanbul-based Yıldız Teknik University were detained following raids on Friday as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams conducted searches of the offices of the academics on the university campus as well as their residences on

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has brought a motion to Parliament that proposes rapists in Turkish jails be released if they marry their victims, a way out of prison for more than 4,000 inmates convicted of rape. The motion was brought to the floor of the General Assembly and was approved by AKP

PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, has released the names of 145 journalists who were jailed by the Turkish government after a failed coup attempt on July 15. According to the association, they managed to gather the list by cross-referencing the various sources available to them at present and will update it as more

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 111 people were arrested, while 180 others were detained over the past 48 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at least