Today In Crackdown

Gulenists under custody as part of an investigation into Turkey’s July 15 coup attempt are kept in a “concentration camp” near Kayseri province, pro-gov’t Turkish news portal Kayseri Haber reported on Aug 13. According to the daily, a concentration camp has been established by the Kayseri Governor’s Office on the 26th km of Sivas-Kayseri highway. People […]

Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the arrest of former Turkish football player Hakan Şükür and his father over their alleged ties to July 15 coup attempt. Police raided the houses of Şükür and his father in Sakarya and Istanbul but failed to arrest them, on Thursday. Former star earlier said that he moved to the

A total of 25 teachers were detained and taken into custody in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne as part of a massive crackdown initiated immediately after the July 15 failed coup, on Thursday. 25 teachers were among 65 Education Ministry personnel suspended earlier due to their alleged ties to coup plotters. The ministry alone has

A court in Sakarya arrested Selmet Şükür, the father of former Turkish football legend Hakan Şükür, in an investigation into the failed 15 July coup aimed at unseating the current Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. Earlier on Aug 11, Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the arrest of Şükür and his father over their alleged ties

An indictment prepared for Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş and its Ankara MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder demanded up to five years in prison on charges of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”. Bakırköy Public Prosecutor prepared the indictment against Demirtaş and Önder on grounds of their speeches at a rally in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district

While thousands of people from various institutions and organizations have been detained/arrested since the failed coup attempt on July 15, the operation towards journalists and media outlets also continue in full career. Turkish journalists with grey service passports now need to get permission from the Directorate General of Press and Information to leave Turkey, Ekrem

Turkish pop singer and songwriter Sıla Gençoğlu’s upcoming concerts have been canceled by Turkish authorities after she refused to attend an İstanbul rally on Aug 7 to protest the July 15 coup attempt. Days before Turkish people gathered at a meeting venue in İstanbul’s Yenikapı district for a joint democracy rally to protest the coup attempt, Sıla announced

A trustee panel has been appointed to Naksan Holding group and its 56 subordinate companies for alleged links to the recent failed military coup attempt in Turkey, latest victim of gov’t crackdown on private enterprise. Gaziantep-based Naksan Holding has some 7,000 employees, among top 500 industrial firms, active in many sectors.