Today In Crackdown

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has appointed trustees to the Van, Mardin and Siirt municipalities in Turkey’s east and southeast region, replacing democratically-elected pro-Kurdish mayors with government-appointed figures. In a statement on Thursday morning, the Interior Ministry announced that Mardin mayor Ahmet Türk, Van mayor Bekir Kaya, who was detained in the early hours of Thursday, and […]

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has so far appointed trustees to 34 of 106 municipalities run by mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), according to a report by the Doğan news agency on Thursday. In the local elections of 2014, DBP candidates won mayoral posts in 11 provincial municipalities. Trustees have

Turkey’s top judicial body, the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), has dismissed 203 more judges and prosecutors over alleged ties to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. The decision for the expulsion of the 203 judges and prosecutors was made

Fundamental rights are suspended; political opponents, intellectuals are jailed; media is censored. Same old same old in Turkey. The pervasive sense of fear, apprehension and the threat to fundamental rights including the right to life in the emergency rule under the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime are far higher than that. Yet there are still a few

According to a report in Deutsche Welle (DW) on Tuesday, most of the 60 Turkish diplomatic passport holders who are seeking asylum in Germany in the post coup period are military personnel who were representing Turkey at NATO. Given the fact that the military personnel at NATO have classified information regarding Turkey, which is a

Halil G., the owner of one of the biggest construction companies in Şanlıurfa province, was arrested by a Turkish court on Monday over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup on July 15. Halil G. came to public attention when he put up huge billboards of

Turkey’s Defense Ministry has announced that it has suspended 291 officers and expelled 19 others at the Naval Forces Command over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The announcement was made on Sunday from the Twitter account of the Defense Ministry. (Turkish Minute)

Turkish government’s crackdown expands to Turkey’s countryside as authorities has recently dismissed a total of 52 teachers, 15 doctors in Turkish district of Merzifon as part of an investigations into the coup attempt of July 15. According to local media outlets, Merzifon police also arrested 22 businessmen over alleged Güen links over the weekend. This

Turkish police have detained five advisors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party said in a statement on Friday. Underlining that the scope of the operation against the HDP has further widened to include the party’s parliamentary advisors, HDP Deputy Co-chair Responsible for Foreign Affairs Hişyar Özsoy said in astatement: “Special operations police raided