Today In Crackdown

A Karabuk couple, both teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, was arrested pending trial after they were caught trying to flee to Greece. The teacher couple, identified as S.M and H.M, was rounded up along with 10 others near Büyükdoğanca village in Edirne, Turkey’s border province […]

Cahit Nakıboğlu, a 70-year-old businessman who spent nearly 1.5 years behind bars as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, was re-arrested only a day after he was released under house arrest. The new ruling to re-jail him came hours after the pro-government journalist Cem Kucuk criticized the initial court decision to

The Antalya Regional Court of Justice has approved a 34 year, 9 month prison sentence for six university students, who are members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), several media outlets in Turkey reported. The students — Merve Nur İşleyici, Ceylan Bozkurt, Fatma Erez, Özgür Sevinç Şimşek, Didar Boza and Necla Unay —  were given prison sentences

Some 25,000 reports on Turkey’s Gülen group were sent to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in 2017, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported that. According to report, people used the MİT website to inform the organization about people suspected to be linked to the Gülen group. Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Friday said 48,305

Journalist Turgut Usul who was earlier sacked from the state-run broadcaster TRT has been arrested pending trial on terror charges. Removed from his TRT job with a government’s post-coup decree, Usul was arrested as part of an Ankara-based investigation into the Gulen movement. Usul is accused of membership to the movement, which the government blames

Pro-Kurdish Republican Peoples’ Party (HDP) Şırnak deputy Leyla Birlik was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months in prison for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday. A Şırnak deputy sentenced Birlik to one and a half year in prison, and increased the punishment by another 3 months on the grounds that the offense was committed in

The Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 70 military personnel of various ranks as part of an ongoing investigation into the Gülen group, the Hürriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the report, 40 of 70 have been detained in operations in 27 provinces. 58 of 70 are active-duty military personnels while

The mother of Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher who went on a hunger strike after he was fired by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, has been detained. Özakça’s mother, Sultan, was detained along with Beyza, the sister of the fellow educator Nuriye Gülmen, also on hunger

A total of fourteen teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs under the government’s post-coup emergency rule, were detained on Tuesday. The suspects were rounded up over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement as part of an investigation in the central Anatolian province of Konya. The government has already detained more than 140,000 people

The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) has banned access to four online news portals at the request of an earlier court decision. Access to Mezopotamya news agency (MA) and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, 1HaberVar and Demokrat Haber news portals were banned. The news sites in question have mainly pro-Kurdish editorial policy. The Turkish government closed down some 180