Today In Crackdown

Turkish authorities should cease preventing Dilek Dündar, wife of exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar, from leaving the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Can Dündar told CPJ that security officers at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport this morning confiscated his wife’s passport and prevented her from boarding a plane to Europe, where she was to

Turkey’s top judicial council has reassigned 1,418 judges and prosecutors while it let 956 newcomers into the profession, in two decrees. The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) changed the duty places of 1,418 judges and prosecutors across the country, on Friday. Meanwhile, 956 new judges and prosecutors were certified by the council. The

Reporter for pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), Sebahattin Koyuncu was arrested for allegedly making propaganda on behalf of the outlawed PKK, while Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Atilla Taş, Mutlu Gölgeçen and Murat Aksoy were jailed as part of an investigation into the Gulen Movement over the past 24 hours. The number of journalists under arrest in

The Ministry of Defence has dismissed 76 military court judges and prosecutors over links to the Gülen movement as post-coup bid purge widens. The dismissals were announced on the ministry’s Twitter account, on Friday. Turkey survived a military coup attempt that killed over 240 people and wounded a thousand others, on July 15. Immediately after

Hüsnü Salih Güder, the former rector of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University (MKÜ) was arrested along with 14 other faculty members, on accusations of having ties to the Gulen Movement, which the government pinned the blame for the July 15 coup attempt, on Friday. Among the arrestees are professors, associate professors and assistant professors. Nearly 23,000 people

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 194 people were arrested, while 264 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Meanwhile, nearly 51,000 civil servants were removed

Academics who signed a pro-peace declaration earlier this year and an atheist associate professor are among 2,346 academics who were removed from their posts due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. In line with a recent decree issued under post-coup-attempt emergency rule, the Turkish government dismissed 50,589 civil servants including academics and