Today In Crackdown

At least 18 people were detained on Saturday after police intervened into a group of military academy students and their families during a scheduled march in Turkey’s capital. Dozens of students who were removed from military academies after the government shuttered them in its post-coup crackdown marched along with their family members to the Anitkabir, […]

At least 80 women, including high school and university students, were subject to torture and other forms of ill-treatment at the hands of a group of police officers at Mersin police station, according to several twitter accounts and media outlets. The women were belived to be affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused by

A former producer at the state-run broadcaster TRT, identified as E.D., was detained at a Bodrum hotel where he was allegedly making plans to sneak into a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Feb 23 that police raided a hotel in Mugla’s Bodrum district upon a complaint that E.D. was staying before his would-be

Journalist Naciye Nur Ener Kılınç, who was released from jail on Tuesday and put under house arrest, said there are six children in the prison cell to which she was confined for 357 days. “I am free, but there is a 30-day-old infant behind those doors. There are six children in my prison cell. I

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists and former president of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (Mazlumder), has been handed down a prison sentence of two-and-a-half years on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda. The verdict was decided by the Kocaeli 2nd High Criminal Court on Wednesday

Two Turkish nationals were abducted by a group of unidentified people immediately after they were released from police custody in Azerbaijan, according to media. Yeni Hamle online news portal reported Feb 19 that Ayhan Seferoğlu and Erdoğan Taylan have been rounded up by a group of people after the court overseeing their case released them from

A Turkish teacher seeking asylum in Greece claimed that Turkey has been cooperating with smugglers to hunt those fleeing the country. The teacher, identified as Hakan, told International Business Times UK (IBTimes UK) he is familiar with a Turkish military officer who offers money to round up Gulenists escaping Turkey to Greece. “They crossed the

Turkish prosecutors seek a prison sentence of from 8 to 27,5 years for two university students on the grounds that they chanted pro-Kurdish slogans and sang a pro-Kurdish guerilla anthem during a demonstration in Diyarbakır province, the Gazete Karınca reported. The indictment, prepared by the Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor’s Office, accused the students of disseminating propaganda on

Izmir police detained an Afghan national, identified as A.F.O., in Bornova district as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement. State-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday that A.F.O. was rounded up on accusation that he helped Afghan students who study at Turkish universities get in touch with dormitories and residences affiliated with the movement.