Today In Crackdown

Büneyye Özmen, 29-year old Turkish woman and the mother of 7-month-old son has been sentenced to 10 years, 6 months in prison over her links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. Özmen was initially detained in October 2017, hours after she gave birth to her son […]

Ali Demirel, the former news director of Can Erzincan TV channel, was put in pre-trial detention on Friday over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement. Can Erzincan TV was shut down by a decree issued by the Turkish government after the coup

A 60-year-old Kayseri man, identified as A.S., was sentenced to 9 years in prison on accusations of membership to an armed terror group, according to media on Thursday. Under pre-trial detention since Jan 30, this year, A.S. was convicted of terror charges during his final hearing and the judge overseeing his case ruled for the

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 66 people as they attempted to mark May Day by marching in Istanbul, Cumhuriyet reported. According to the report, 56 people were detained in Beşiktaş, six in Maltepe, two in Beyoğlu and two in the Şişli district of Istanbul. According to the Turkish media over 26,000 police officers have been

An İstanbul prosecutor is seeking five years in prison for two pro-Kurdish politician, Selahattin Demirtaş and Sırrı Süreyya Önder. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported that Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Önder are accused of spreading terror propaganda in speeches they gave five years ago. The two politicans reportedly made

The Twitter accounts of the European Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn and of NATO former Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen were taken over by the Turkish hacker group Ayyildiz over the weekend. The hacker group posted pro-Erdogan tweets from both accounts. “I want to make a confession! We knew that the coup was going to take place

At least 489 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 489 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Apr 23-30. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s offices on Monday issued detention warrants for 25 air force officers of varying ranks as part of an investigation into theTurkey’s Gülen group. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, 11 of the 25 were dismissed by a state of emergency decree, 12 were suspended and two had previously retired.

Ümit Horzum, a former public servant who was earlier removed from his job at Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) in a government’s post-coup emergency decree, has been released from police custody where he spent 11 days after his 133 days of disappearance. “God bless you all. Thanks for your prayers. My husband was released. We try

Turkish police has confirmed to the Hürriyet daily that Turkish businessman Mustafa Ceyhan who was kidnapped on April 28 by a group of eight people in front of a courthouse in Baku, was flown to Turkey early on April 29. Upon his forcefull return to Turkey, the businessman was put in pre-trial detention by an İstanbul court