Today In Crackdown

At least 853 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 568 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between March 19-26. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 […]

More than 1,400 Turks claimed asylum in Germany in the first two months of this year, according to German daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. The corresponding number was around 5,700 in whole 2016 and 8,500 in 2017. Compiling data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the newspaper said Germany is increasingly welcoming towards

Turkish prosecutors have found that a doctor who committed suicide after being removed from his job over his alleged use of ByLock mobile app did not actually use the application, the Evrensel daily reported on Thursday. Shortly after he was fired from his job at the İzmir-based Katip Çelebi University Hospital in February 2017 as

Arrest warrant has been issued for exiled journalist Hayko Bagdat for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Media reported March 30 that a Turkish court issued the warrant since Bagdat failed to show up for his trial over a column he wrote back in 2015. Bagdat, in his column, claimed that Erdogan targeted journalists with

Ayşe Çalışkan, a Sakarya teacher who was dismissed from her job in September 2016, died of stomach cancer on March 30. The mother of two was diagnosed with cancer nearly a month after she was purged as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. She had a surgery in Istanbul in June 2017, and since then

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday expressed satisfaction with an operation to abduct six Turkish nationals linked to the Gülen movement in Kosovo carried out by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization and vowed to bring all people affiliated with the movement to Turkey in similar operations. “Our National Intelligence Organization, in cooperation with Kosovo’s intelligence

The wife of Kahraman Demirez, one of the six Gulenists abducted by Turkish intelligence agency in Kosovo, has said the abductees are still kept at Turkish embassy, calling on people for support. “We are now sure that our husbands are being kept at Turkish embassy. We are waiting here. The number of police officers is

Kosovo police have arrested five Turkish nationals working at a group of schools affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of masterminding a failed coup attempt in 2016, The Associated Press and Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. A source who has knowledge of the arrests

At least 120 people including on-duty soldiers and gendarmerie personnel have been detained by Turkish police over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the pro-government Yeni Şafak reported. According to the report, the detentions took place in at least 10 provinces including Samsun, Gaziantep, Yalova, Istanbul and Ankara. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July

At least 568 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 568 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between March 19-26. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016