Today In Crackdown

A Denizli court on Tuesday appointed trustees to 30 companies owned by 23 businessmen in the province over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Some of the business owners are currently under arrest as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement on the grounds that they provide financial support to the movement. […]

Seventeen judges and prosecutors who were recently detained as part of an operation against people using a smart phone application called ByLock were arrested in İstanbul on Tuesday. As part of a witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) suspended 184 judges and prosecutors for allegedly using ByLock last

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 12 people were arrested, while 127 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at least 13 provinces

A total of seven Turkish citizens were detained while they were attempting to flee to Romania over Bulgaria, according to Turkish media. Seven people including three police officers dismissed under post-coup emergency rules, an Osmaniye based reporter for the government-confiscated Zaman newspaper, a teacher, an academic and a small business owner were detained by Bulgarian

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has prohibited individuals in Silivri Prison who are currently under arrest over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement from communicating with the outside world during an ongoing state of emergency, the Sözcü daily reported on Monday. A three-month-long state of emergency went into effect in Turkey following

The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Monday that a record number of individual petitions have been received by the court, with more than 40,000 submitted following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan told a law congress held in İstanbul under the auspices of the Office of the

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 183 people were arrested, while 49 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

Turkey’s General Director of Prisons and Detention Houses, Enis Yavuz Yıldırım, said on Friday that Turkey’s prisons are now over capacitated with nearly 40,000 new arrests following the failed coup attempt on July 15. According to the information shared by Yıldırım at Human Rights Commission in the Turkish parliament on Friday, there are nearly 195,000 prisoners in 372 prisons across Turkey which is four percent

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan threatened Gülen movement sympathizers, who he accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, with a revocation of their citizenship and said he hopes those countries who shelter and host them will be troubled by their presence. Speaking during a meeting with civil society representatives in Konya on Friday, Erdoğan

Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, has praised the Turkish people for their courageous resistance to a coup attempt in July but criticized the government’s subsequent response, saying it goes against the principles of democracy. In an interview with BBC Persian’s Khashayar Joneidi, Pamuk said ordinary Turks who took