Today In Crackdown

Co-chairpersons of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ were arrested by a Turkish court on Friday afternoon after they were detained along with nine other HDP deputies following police raids in their houses in the early hours of Friday, state-run Anadolu news agency has reported. Police raided the homes and […]

Turkey will face another day of communication woes on Saturday as the blocking of social media and sharing websites that were shut down by the Turkish government following the arrest of nine Kurdish politicians enters its second day. At around 11:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, monitoring network Turkey Blocks, which provides a live feed

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/4sICE_cYqfdGhkPM.mp4 Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was taken to Edirne Prison in northwestern Turkey after a Diyarbakır court ruled for his arrest on Friday. Demirtaş was seen landing in a police helicopter on a sports field near Edirne Prison escorted by counterterrorism police. Turkish courts on Friday arrested nine HDP deputies

Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Thursday dismissed a total of 1,218 officers from the Gendarmerie Forces Command due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. A statement made by the ministry said 419 officers, 604 non-commissioned officers, 158 specialized

Şırnak deputy of pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP) Ferhat Encü announced on Thursday that his passport was confiscated at İstanbul airport as he was getting ready to board on plane for a flight to Brussels. Encü wrote on Twitter that due to a travel ban abroad issued by a court on Thursday, he was not

Twelve academics were detained as part of an investigation against the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, on Thursday. The detainees are accused of using the smart phone application ByLock, which according to prosecutors is the top communication tool among members of the

Three sisters-in-law of Adil Öksüz, the prime suspect in a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, were detained in Sakarya province on Wednesday. As part of an investigation by the Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office into the faith-based Gülen movement, accused by the government of masterminding the failed coup, Öksüz’s sisters-in-law B.N., H.T. and M.Y.

Detained along with 20 other colleagues from four provinces across Turkey, one teacher told reporters not to take her picture saying: “Please, I have students.” Twenty-one teachers were detained in Denizil, Ankara, Adana and Gaziantep in an operation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams from the Adana Police Department conducted simultaneous

The Ankara Bar Association has strongly criticized two recent state of emergency decrees that were issued by the government on Oct. 29, saying they violate the right to a defense. “The goal of the recent decrees [675 and 676] is to destroy people’s right to a defense. The right that was challenged does not belong

Twenty-one teachers have been detained across four provinces in an operation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams from the Adana Police Department conducted simultaneous raids on residences belonging to teachers in Adana, Gaziantep, Ankara and Denizli provinces on Wednesday morning. Five of the detained teachers were women. When the detainees were