Today In Crackdown

Turkish singer Sıla Gençoğlu some of whose concerts have been cancelled due to her critical statements about a democracy rally held earlier this month, has another of her concert be cancelled, Cumhuriyet daily reported on Sunday. The young singer refused to attend the democracy rally held in Istanbul on Aug.7 against a failed coup attempt […]

Turkish police raided the Diyarbakır offices of Kurdish-publishing daily newspaper, Azadiya Welat on Sunday. Police officers reportedly continue searching the office. The number of journalists jailed in Turkey went up to 106 with the recent arrests of two reporters for pro-Kurdish news outlets. DİHA news agency’s Erdem Mühirci were arrested along with Ali Aşikar from

As part of a post-coup-attempt witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, the Ministry of Defense has dismissed 196 military court judges and prosecutors over links to the movement, reported the Cumhuriyet daily on Saturday. The state-run Anadolu news agency reported on July 20 that the Defense Ministry sacked at least 262 military court judges and prosecutors

Three ambassadors, including former Turkish President Abdullah Gül’s aide and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s ex-adviser Gürcan Balık, were arrested as part of an investigation by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office into people affiliated with the Gülen Movement in Turkey. Along with Balık, ambassadors Ali Fındık and Tuncay Babalı were arrested. Balık was detained by

Turkey’s Interior Ministry is poised to dismiss 6,800 police officers, over their alleged ties to then Gülen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, in a new decree to be issued under emergency rules. According to Milliyet daily, the ministry has recently prepared a new list of police officers suspected of

A major shareholder in the Islamic lender Bank Asya and Koza İnşaat, the two companies recently recently seized by the government, Mustafa Aydın Koyuncu was arrested over his alleged ties to the July 15 failed coup attempt. Police raided a farm house in Kırklareli’s Koyuncu village and arrested Koyuncu, on Thursday. Police reportedly found a

A total of 92 people at Isparta’s Süleyman Demirel University (SDU) were suspended along with 62 others at Adıyaman University, with most of them implicated within investigations into the July 15 failed coup attempt, on Thursday. Victims of Thursday operation surged the total number of those suspended at SDU since July 15 up to 410.

18 businessmen were arrested Aug 26 in a probe into the financial links of sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, including the chief executive of major Turkish company İhlas Holding, Cahit Paksoy. Within the scope of the probe, Paksoy and 97 others, including those from discount market chain A101, were detained on Aug 17. After