Today In Crackdown

Turkey has deported 50 Nigerian students who studied at a Fethullah Gülen-linked university in İstanbul after a diplomatic dispute with the African country broke out over the detention of the students at the airport on Oct. 1. Earlier on Thursday the Nigerian House of Representatives gave the Turkish government a seven-day ultimatum to release 50 […]

Yücel D., reportedly a member of Communist Party of Turkey and Marxist Leninist Movement(TKP/ML), was arrested in Çorum province on Thursday over his social media shares insulting President Tayyip Erdoğan. According to Doğan news agency, Yücel D. was arrested and put in a jail in Çorum after a court ordered his arrest over “insulting the

At least 200 people were arrested, while 139 others were detained on Thursday, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 13 provinces across Turkey. With most of the arrestees being academics, those arrested over the past day also included teachers, state workers, military personal. Among those detained are small business owners, housewives, state

Thirty-three out of 40 people, who are members of the Kimse Yok Mu aid foundation and referred to court for arrest on Wednesday, were arrested on Friday as part of an İstanbul-based investigation targeting the faith-based Gülen movement. Seven of the detainees were released after their interrogation by the court. Detention warrants were issued last

Two female doctors who have recently been dismissed from their posts at state-run hospitals in Ankara due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, have been arrested by the Turkish authorities in Edirne province while they were attempting to flee to Greece, a statement from the Edirne Governor’s Office said on Wednesday. Thousands

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 93 people were arrested, while 172 others were detained on Wednesday, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 30 provinces across Turkey.

A police officer identified only by the initials E.O. committed suicide in the courtyard of the Bayburt Police Station after he was suspended over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a July 15 coup attempt. Turkey’s National Police Department on Monday suspended 12,801 officers in the latest wave of

An Istanbul woman has been tricked out of $800,000 by scammers who convinced her to help them catch sympathisers of the Gülen movement in an alleged secret police operation. A government-orchestrated witch-hunt against the movement has been ensnaring new victims every day, with even swindlers capitalizing the newly emerged frenzy. A 58-year-old woman, known only

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Mehmet Metiner has said he would have done the same if he were the police officers who roughed up sympathizers of the Gülen movement in an attempt to arrest them. “I am not interested in [allegations of] kicks and slaps during arrests [of FETÖ members]. I would do

Forty-seven people including military officers and a deputy governor were arrested in separate operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement in İstanbul and Ankara on Thursday. Twenty-seven people, among them military officers and pilots from the Akıncı 4th Air Base, were arrested as part of an investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.