Today In Crackdown

Deputy chairman of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) Mehmet Yılmaz has said judges and prosecutors who have been suspended from their posts due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement may return to their posts if they become informants. Thousands of judges and prosecutors have been suspended by the HSYK […]

Nearly 115,000 objections have been filed against government decisions to dismiss people with alleged links to the Gülen movement from state positions, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Friday. The government pinned the blame for a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey on the Gülen movement and dismissed more than 105,000 civil servants, with many

A police officer told former Zaman daily columnist Ali Bulaç, who has been in Silivri Prison since July 28 on coup charges, that he will suffer even more in prison as he did not support President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan similar to pro-government columnists, an opposition deputy said on Wednesday. Speaking with the Cumhuriyet daily on

“It’s a kind of civil death,” Kerem Altiparmak, a human rights lawyer and political science professor at Ankara University told Los Angeles Times on Wednesday when describing how the lives of thousands of people change after the July 15 coup attempt. “You cannot leave the country, you cannot find other jobs, either because of legal

Forty-six staff members of Aksaray University in central Turkey including the university’s former rector were detained on Thursday in the latest wave of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement. Professor Mustafa Acar, who served as the university’s rector between 2011 and 2015, and the other 45 academics were detained after

An Adana judge who arrested 10 high-ranking military officers including Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base commander, Gen. Bekir Ercan Van, on coup charges, has been jailed for using the ByLock mobile application. Turkish prosecutors claim that ByLock is the top communication tool among members of the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a July 15 coup

Mehmet Barlas, a columnist from the pro-government Sabah daily who is known as a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in his column on Wednesday that US President Barack Obama could be an “imam” of the faith-based Gülen movement in Washington. “Does not the question of, ‘Could Obama be the imam of FETÖ

Former head of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Murat Arslan was detained in Ankara on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement. Arslan was recently dismissed from his post at the Court of Accounts as a result of the probe against the movement. YARSAV was among the thousands of

A prosecutor with the İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded arrest warrants for former Today’s Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş, Zaman daily columnist Kerim Balcı and Samanyolu TV Group (STV) US representative Şemsettin Efe on charges of links to a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Can Tuncay, a prosecutor in the İstanbul Public

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 76 people were arrested, while 128 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at least