Today In Crackdown

The Turkish authorities sealed the hangars and aircraft of Tarkim Air at İstanbul Atatürk Airport and Adana Airport over the owner’s alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which is accused of plotting a failed coup attempt on July 15. Police teams raided the Tarkim hangar at İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Monday afternoon and searched 10 […]

Twenty-one schoolteachers who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were arrested as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, on Monday. Turkish prosecutors claim that Bylock is the top communication tool among the members of Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of mastermind the July 15 coup attempt. Thousands have

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 101 individuals including courthouse employees in İzmir, Manisa, Konya and Kütahya provinces, media reports said on Thursday. Seventy-six of these people have already been detained, according the reports. The İzmir-based operation targeted mostly courthouse employees in the four provinces who have alleged links to

Turkey’s ever-widening post-coup purge has taken its toll on the Capitals Market Board (SPK) as the regulator fails to carry out its most basic tasks. SPK’s workload has been piling up every passing day as it fails to function properly after three of its decision committee members were suspended over their alleged links to the

Turkish police dispersed on Saturday a group of around 50 teachers who were staging a protest in Diyarbakır against the Turkish government’s recent suspension of 11,285 teachers over alleged links with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Teachers, blowing whistles and holding placards gathered at the main avenue of Diyarbakır’s Kayapınar district early on Saturday. Riot police used

At least 63 people were arrested, while 235 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 35 provinces across Turkey. With most of the arrestees being school teachers, those arrested over the past day also included university personnel, a bar president, businessmen, public workers, one

A  Turkish court on Sunday arrested a former Turkish military attaché to Washington on charges of alleged ties to coup plotters. Gen. Yavuz Çelik quit the military following a failed coup attempt on July 15 but was briefly detained by an Ankara court. He was released under judiciary supervision. Detained by police on Sunday, Çelik

Former European parliamentarian and journalist Joost Lagendijk tweeted that he was denied entry to Turkey on Sunday on the grounds that he needed to obtain a “special visa” from the Turkish Embassy in the Netherlands. “Turkish authorities stopped me on my return fturom Neth at Sabiha Gökcen airport. I am not allowed in. Send back to Neth

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 98 people were arrested, while 219 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 35

Five people including cousins of the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have been detained in Erzurum’s Korucuk village. Earlier this month, police also detained a nephew of Gülen in İstanbul and his niece in Balıkesir. Critics have lambasted the government for a massive purge it is carrying out that violates the principle of individual criminal responsibility.