Today In Crackdown

Ankara Public prosecutor’s office has been investigating 50 to 60 businessmen who are suspected of having withdrawn from the country’s stock exchange just before a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to pro-government Yeni Safak daily, the businessmen in question “extraordinarily” sold off all their shares at the country’s stock exchange in a […]

Twenty-five teachers were detained in Samsun province on Thursday over links to the Gülen group, İHA reported. According to the report, two of the 25 were still teaching, while the rest had previously been dismissed as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen group launched following a failed coup in 2016. Turkey survived a military

A Kocaeli engineer, identified by his initials M.K., told the judge in charge that he will stand trial for his decision to sentence the former to nearly 7 years in jail on terror charges, media said Monday. “Dear judge, I didn’t get this sentence. You sentenced yourself. When the democracy and the rule of law

The Turkish government has been using emergency rule to suppress the dissident groups instead of “fighting the coup plotters,” the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said. According to a report by the Hurriyet daily news on Tuesday, Kılıçdaroğlu also slammed the ruling Ak Party’s recent decision to extend the state of emergency

At least 13 people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, media said on Jan 9. State-run Anadolu news agency said gendarmerie stopped a suspected group of 13 people in Gavurağılı neighborhood in the western province of Mugla. When some of the group members attempted to escape gendarmerie

Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Tavus Bin Keysan Gülen was rounded up as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Saturday. Detained in Istanbul’s Umraniye district, Şamil is accused of membership to a terrorist organization as the government labels the movement as terrorist group. The

More than 50 former public employees committed suicide after they were removed from their offices as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, according to the Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK). Over 50 people, among them former judges, prosecutors, police officers and civil servants committed suicide due to dismissal from their

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir was detained in the western Turkish province of İzmir on Saturday. A detention warrant has recently been issued for Baydemir by a Şırnak upon he failed to testify to authorities as part of an investigation carried out against him in Şırnak province. The Mezopotamya new

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out a French journalist after he was asked a question about Turkish intelligence’s alleged arm shipment to Syrian extremists in Syria. “You are talking like someone from FETO organization,” Erdogan responded to French reporter Laurent Richard during a press conference in Paris on Friday. Richard said “he is talking