Today In Crackdown

Eighteen people who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were arrested on Friday as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement. 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 attempt. Critics, […]

A panel of trustees on Saturday was appointed to furniture chain Alfemo due to alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a botched coup on July 15. An İzmir court ruled on the trustee appointment to the board of the furniture chain, which is partnered by mattress producer YATPA Corporation. 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 124 people were arrested, while 357 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 39 provinces across Turkey.

Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for a total of 162 courthouse and prison employees in İstanbul on Friday due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. İstanbul police raided the Çağlayan, Gaziosmanpaşa and Küçükçekmece courthouses on Friday after detention warrants were issued for 87 people working in these courthouses on the grounds that

The passport of former Today’s Zaman reporter Arslan Ayan has been confiscated by officials at the Turkish Consulate General in New York on the grounds that a warrant for his detention is outstanding back in Turkey. Ayan told Turkey Purge that he voluntarily walked into the consulate general early on Sept 28, 2016, because he needed

A total of 26 academics have been detained as part of an investigation into a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, the Doğan news agency has reported. According to the Sept 30 report, the detained academics are from Konya Selçuk University and Necmettin Erbakan University. Eighteen of them are full professors, while the remainder comprises

A 59-year-old veterinarian was arrested on Thursday in Bursa for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. Police detained M.K. in Bursa after he shared his message on Twitter. Following an interrogation at police headquarters he was referred by a prosecutor to court, which ordered his arrest. Insulting the

A total of 90 people including faculty members and personnel from Gaziantep University have been detained on coup charges, adding to the already high number of academics currently in custody. The Gaziantep police on Thursday carried out simultaneous raids on the homes of 90 academics and university staff members and took them into custody. Nearly

Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) are set to follow the suit after many other state institutions that established close-circuit commissions to cleanse people affiliated with the Gülen movement from within public bodies. Infamous commissions are responsible for 100,000 people who have either been sacked or suspended from state positions since the July 15 coup attempt for

An Istanbul court has tasked a trustee panel to govern the 36-hectare Garip Island, off Turkey’s western province of İzmir, over the owner’s alleged links to the Gülen movement. The management of construction conglomerate, Fi Yapı was seized by government-appointed trustees, on Tuesday. The seizure came days after the confiscation of assets belonging to the