Today In Crackdown

A recent circular from Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked school mayors to rat on teachers whom they consider affiliated with the outlawed PKK, implying at another wave of massive dismissals under emergency rules. “The list of the personnel who carry out activities supporting the PKK terror organization and of those who must be dismissed from […]

In the latest phase of an ever-growing demonization of Fethullah Gülen by the Turkish government, police are set to deliberately plant his books in Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cells in order to expose an alleged connection between the cleric and the terrorist organization, according to a Turkish journalist. “My sources say

İsmailr Demiriz, the former player for Turkey’s Galatasaray, arrested over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. An Istanbul court ruled on arrest of Demiriz shortly after he was detained on Thursday. As part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, arrest warrants

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 71 people were arrested, while 349 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 24 provinces

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday asked the country’s top court to annul a government decree numbered 668 which was issued during a state of emergency declared in the wake of a military coup attempt of July 15. In line with the government decree numbered 668, Turkey’s gendarmerie and Coastal Security Guard

İstanbul’s 1st Penal Court of Peace on Thursday issued a warrant for the detention of journalist and author Ahmet Altan after he was released from custody earlier in the day. After spending 12 days in detention Ahmet Altan was released under judicial supervision, while his brother, journalist and academic Mehmet Altan, was arrested by an

Siirt Bar Association President Mehmet Cemal Acar was detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup attempt in July. Police raided Acar’s house and office on Wednesday morning and subsequently detained him. Detention warrants were also issued for eight other individuals, some

The disciplinary board of the Galatasaray football club on Wednesday expelled from membership three former players and two former governors who are currently under investigation over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The former football players are Hakan Şükür, Arif Erdem and İsmail Demiriz, while the governors are former Bursa Governor Şehabettin Harput and

At least 53 people were arrested, while 205 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 14provinces across Turkey. The arrestees over the past day included university personnel; teachers, academics, pharmacists, shopkeeper and court personnel.

A total of 12 people, among them a 72-year-old Turkish man, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak on Monday. The elderly man, known by initials H.A., was brought to the court for testimony by the help of gendarmerie officers with a stick on