Today In Crackdown

The house belonging to veteran journalist Şahin Alpay, who was released pending trial on May 17 after spending 20 months in jail, has been subject to frequent and random searchings by police even at midnights, according to Alpay’s lawyer.  Alpay was jailed in the aftermath of a military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 over […]

On March 19, a group of students protested other students who had set up a stand at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University campus to distribute Turkish delight in memory of Turkish soldiers killed during the Turkish military’s operation in Afrin, Syria. Police identified 17 of the protestors and detained 15 of them. So far, 13 Boğaziçi student have

Koray Çalışkan, an associate professor who was put in house arrest on July 10 as part of an investigation into 20 university academics, has been sentenced to one year, six months and 22 days in prison for disseminating the propaganda of Gülen movement on social media. According to the pro-government Sabah daily, the ruling was made by

The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality has changed the names of streets and avenues that bear the last name of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, who is accused by the Turkish government of mounting a botched coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to Anadolu News Agency, seven streets and avenues in various districts of the capital Ankara have

A Turkish court on Thursday ruled for the arrest of four journalists affiliated with the Etkin News Agency (ETHA). The arrestees — Semiha Şahin, Pınar Gayıp, Ferhat Harun Pehlivan, Gülsen İmre — are accused of “membership in a terrorist organization” and “spreading propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization.” Turkey is the biggest jailer of journalists in

The Turkish Parliament has stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Selma Irmak of their parliamentary status, the Cumhuriyet daily reported.  The decision was made due to the approval by an appeals court of sentences the two depuies had previously received. A regional appeals court in Gaziantep in February approved a 10-year jail

The Turkish government has identified a total of 3,000 active duty military officers suspected of links to the Gülen group, said Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday. “They will be dismissed with a government decree in the coming days,”Canikli stated according to report by the Hürrüyet daily. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has

A Turkish court has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Burcu Çelik Özkan to prison for alleged terrorism propaganda, according to a report by the pro-Kurdish Mesopotamia news agency. Özkan was sentenced to seven years, three months and 10 days on charges of disseminating propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). She had previously

A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled to arrest three editors and one media worker from the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, which was seized by the Turkish government in late March on the grounds that it has links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Özgürlükçü Demokrasi is the successor of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which