Today In Crackdown

At least 135 people were arrested, while 308 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies.  Turkish police carried out the operations in 20 provinces across Turkey. With most of the arrestees being teachers and businessmen, those arrested over the past day also included academics; police officers; lawyers and civilians.

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 85 people including six generals and 43 lower-ranking officers on Thursday as part of witch-hunt operations against the Gülen movement launched in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The police have started to carry out raids

A group of lawyers who gathered in the western province of İzmir on Friday to protest detention warrants issued for 25 of their colleagues in the southern province of Antalya on Thursday were subjected to an intervention by police and subsequently detained. The Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 25

At least 2,308 journalists have lost their jobs after the government shut down more than a hundred of media outlets since the July 15 failed coup attempt, according to a joint statement made by press associations on Friday. Condemning the detention and arrest of journalists during the state of emergency declared in the aftermath of

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions has continued on Wednesday as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 159 people were arrested, while 94 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. According to info Turkeypurge.com gathered,

A total of 27 businessmen were arrested on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt in July that the government accuses the faith-based Gülen movement of masterminding. Twenty-seven businessmen, including Faruk Güllü, one of the brothers who runs separate Güllüoğlu Baklava chains, and Aydınlı Group Chairman Ömer Faruk Kavurmacı, who

Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s issued detention warrants for 25 lawyers including members of Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) members on Thursday, as part of witch-hunt operations against the Gülen movement launched in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, Bianet news website reported on Thursday. According to the report, police raided houses of

Three sisters of the wife of Adil Öksüz, one of the main suspects wanted for his alleged role in an attempted coup in Turkey on July 15, were detained on Thursday. Naciye Alişan, Belkıs Nur Tetik and Seyyide Öznur, the three sisters-in-law of Öksüz, were brought to the Sakarya Police Station for interrogation. Critics have

A total of 25 people including faculty members and personnel at Malatya’s İnönü University were arrested over coup charges, bringing up the already high-number of academics jailed over their alleged ties to the July 15 failed coup bid, on Thursday. Nearly 23,000 people from all walks of life have been under arrest since the failed

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