Today In Crackdown

Police in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Kayseri arrested 52 teachers who were found to be using ByLock, a smartphone messaging application or what Turkish prosecutors calls the top communication tool among the members of Gulen Movement, on Saturday. The movement is accused by the government of masterminding the coup attempt on July 15. Kayseri police detained 128 […]

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 206 people were arrested, while 30 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 18 provinces across Turkey.

With authority vested by the state of emergency rule, the Turkish government removed 28 mayors on Sunday in the predominantly in Kurdish regions of the country, replacing them with trustees. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Interior Affairs, 28 mayors are accused of links with terrorist organizations. Twenty-four mayors allegedly support the

Trustees were appointed to 17 companies on Thursday due to their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a botched coup on July 15. Among the firms affected are construction, transportation and tourism companies. On Wednesday a Turkish court ordered the seizure of all assets of 41 businessmen suspected of

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 274 people were arrested, while 104 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 26 provinces across

A lawyer from the independent journalism organization Platform 24 (P24) has announced that journalist brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan who were detained on Saturday were being accused of revealing the plans for the July 15 coup attempt one day earlier. P24 lawyer Veysel Ok announced that his clients were detained on the grounds that

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) announced on Friday that its current number of personnel had fallen to 391,695 from 596,059 following developments in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15. According to the TSK statement, which was released almost two months after the July 15 coup attempt, which was followed by a

Seven individuals including the owner of the Seyidoğlu Baklava chain, Mustafa Seyidoğlu, were arrested on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt in July that the government accuses the faith-based Gülen movement of masterminding. Last week, 27 businessmen, including Faruk Güllü, one of the brothers who runs Güllüoğlu Baklava operations,

A crackdown that has followed a failed coup in Turkey has completely gone off the tracks, with the state-run TRT Spor even failing to air encounters in the country’s first division football league due to a lack of personnel. It has already been two weeks since the start of the season, and the channel has