Today In Crackdown

A graphic video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of Turkish-speaking soldiers beating a Kurdish villager in order to get information about anti-tank missile belonging to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). According to the pro-Kurdish @TurkeyUntold Twitter account, the video was recorded during a Turkish military operation in the Afrin region of Syria. The Turkish […]

Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has removed from its Islamic Encyclopedia content by some scholars are affiliated with the Gulen movement, according to theology professor Ayhan Tekines. In a series of tweets, Tekines said Friday that Diyanet censored the encyclopedia’s online version, removing articles written by him and Suat Yildirim, a close associate of Fethullah

Pınar Türk, İstanbul district head for the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), has been put in pre-trial detention by an İstanbul court, the Birgün daily reported on Friday. According to the report, Türk was jailed distributing leaflets lambasting a recent state of emergency decree that stipulates all convicts and suspects under arrest for alleged crimes against the

A Turkish citizen working for the US Consulate in Istanbul, identified as N.M.C., was put under de facto house arrest, according to Al-Monitor on Thursday. N.M.C. was interrogated for four hours and asked to remain in his house until a further notice, sources told Al-Monitor adding that he did not go to work on Feb

13 more people have been detained over their messages of support for a statement released by the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) criticizing Turkey’s military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria, the pro-government Sabah daily reported on Friday. According to the report, 13 people were detained by police in raids on their homes early

Journalist Cem Kucuk, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called on the government to close down the critical TV channel, KRT. “[Foreigners] in YPG ranks in Afrin fire their guns against Turkish troops. And then, this KRT TV channel host Caglar Dilara gets on his program [pro-Kurdish HDP deputy] Garo Paylan

The anti-government Furkan foundation has been temporarily closed as part of a decision by a prosecutor. “Adana-based Furkan foundation, all its branches and representatives were banned in accordance with the approval of the Interior Ministry, dated Jan 31, 2018,” a written statement by the Adana Public Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. Furkan’s president Alparslan Kuytul were

Detention warrants were issued for 18 women in Turkey’s central province of Konya as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. State-run Anadolu news agency said women are part of the Gulen group’s women network in Konya. Police detained 15 of them at the time of this writing while the remaining 3

At least 20 people were detained for their previous money deposits into Bank Asya, as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement on Wednesday. An Istanbul prosecutor issued detention warrants for 36 people who are accused of having sold off their belongings to create funds for Bank Asya, the movement’s lender which was later

A total of 110,778 people were dismissed from state institutions while 3,604 of them were later reinstated to their jobs, with post-coup emergency decrees, according to Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag. The number of people who have lost their state jobs with emergency decrees stands at 107,174 after reinstatements, Bozdag told a parliamentary gathering Wednesday. Turkey