Today In Crackdown

The Hürriyet daily, one of the leading newspapers in Turkey, has parted ways with renowned columnist Taha Akyol. According to a recent tweet posted by Mr. Akyol’s son, Mustafa Akyol, everyone knows why his father was laid off. “Today, Turkey’s largest newspaper Hürriyet ended the decades-old column of my father Taha Akyol. Everyone knows why. […]

Turkish pop singer Mabel Matiz has been subjec to a post-coup investigation for using 1-dollar bills in a 2017 video clip, pro-government Sabah newspaper reported Tuesday. Having danced with 1-dollar bills in his jacket’s pockets in the video, shot for his track “Ya Bu Isler Ne,” Matiz is accused of aiding the Gulen movement. The

Ten people were detained during a police raid on an apartment in Kayseri’s central district of Melikgazi. Media reported that police raided the apartment upon the information that followers of the Gulen movement were having weekly meetings over there. During the raid, 10 people were rounded up and an ensuing ID check revealed that the

At least 239 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 239 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Sept 3-10. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016

A non-commissioned police officer until he was dismissed in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, identified as C.B.A., has been detained while he was reportedly on his way to illegally sneak into Iraq along with his children. State-run Anadolu news agency said Monday that gendarmerie rounded up C.B.A. as well as his

The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) released a new report titled “Death in Custody: Right to Life in Turkish Prisons” expressing concerns over the increasing number of suspicious deaths in custody since an attempted coup on July 15, 2016 in Turkey, taking place in suspicious circumstances and in a pattern of systematic recurrence. Over the

A man was caught on camera hurling racist insults and threatening Turkish human rights activist, Barbaros Şansal, at a restaurant in Northern Cyprus. In the video, a man wearing a white t-shirt, is heard accusing Şansal of betraying Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. “You b*stard! You will apologize to the people of  the Turkish Republic

Veysel Akçay, a Mongolia-based Turkish educator who has links to Turkey’s Gülen group, has allegedly called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) for urgent action against an imminent risk of abduction by the Turkish government. Mr. Akçay, the general director of Turkish schools in Mongolia, was once abducted by the agents of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation

A total of 102 people were sentenced to life in prison as part of a post-coup investigation into Turkey’s War Colleges Command, on Friday. An Istanbul court sentenced 67 of the defendants to life in jail the remaining 35 received aggravated life sentences, meaning the convicts “have to spend the rest of their lives in

An Edirne parent has been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists and pro Kurdish HDP deputy, as mother Hatice Saylak