Today In Crackdown

At least 493 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 493 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Dec 25 and Jan 1. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the […]

At least 15 lawyers, and judges and prosecutors who were earlier removed from their offices as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown were detained on Jan 1. State-run Anadolu news agency said Monday that police carried out operations in several provinces and detained 15 suspects sought by the Tokat Public Prosecutor’s Office. The detainees are

M.A., a professor of business ethics who was earlier dismissed from his job at Istanbul’s Yildiz Technical University, has been put in pretrial detention after he attempted to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece. M.A. was detained along with A.C.E. a fellow academic who was purged from the Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir and G.H.,

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Sunday strongly criticized people who have condemned a new state of emergency decree that gives immunity to civilians who take part in thwarting coup and terror incidents, saying they’re no different than coup plotters, Cumhuriyet reported. “We have issued a law to protect our heroic citizens who advanced on

A pro-democracy organisation called “United for Democracy — Demokrasi için Birlik” has launched a campaign for the lifting of the state of emergency in Turkey, reported by online news outlet Ahval on Saturday. It was declared in July 2016 after a failed coup attempt organised by a group of rouge army officials and bureaucrats. Many international observers criticised the government,

A group of Turkish activists from different walks of life have joined in an open letter in support Osman Kavala, the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, and one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen who was put in pretrial detention in Nov 1, 2017. In the letter, Kavala’s former and current colleagues wished him a happy New Year. Along

At least two people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, media said on Dec 10. State-run Anadolu news agency gendarmerie, acting upon an earlier tipoff, found two people, identified as B.A. and A.A. hiding near a steam bed in the Eskiköy village in Edirne, Turkey’s border province

At least four people have already committed suicide for being investigated over ByLock mobile app that they had never downloaded, according to human rights defender Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday stated that 11,480 GSM users were found to have been involuntarily directed to mobile phone application ByLock and that

A theater play performed by Duygu Şahlar, a teacher who was removed from her job as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, was banned in 5 districts of the western province of Mugla. District governors of Milas, Datça, Marmaris, Fethiye and Bodrum said: “…the staging of the theater play, Bi’şey Anlatıcam (I am gonna tell