Today In Crackdown

Şentürk Çoban, the security manager of the Highway Shopping Mall in Turkey’s Bolu province has died following a heart attack during a court appearance. Çoban who spent some 6 months before being released pending trial on accusations of membership to the Gulen movement, suffered a heart attack during a court hearing in Bolu, local media […]

Detention warrants have been issued for 23 academics and other staff members of Hacettepe University in Ankara as part of an investigation into the Gülen group launched by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. According to the report, police has detained 7 of 23 suspects in operations

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, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The legal status of the 11,480 mobile phone users will be re-evaluated, prosecutors said. Turkish authorities believe ByLock is a communication tool among Gülenists,

At least 15 people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, media said on Dec 10. Dogan news agency said gendarmerie stopped three cars near Büyükdoğanca neighborhood in Edirne, Turkey’s border province with Greece and rounded up 15 passengers on suspicion of attempting to illegally exit Turkey. Among

Nurullah Şahinöz, a vocalist at the Presidential Classical Turkish Music Choir was removed from his position with the latest government decree, No 696, on Sunday. Turkish media has said Şahinöz was purged from his position as a vocalist at the presidential choir. More than 150,000 people have lost their jobs since the failed coup on July 15,

Former football player Uğur Boral was briefly detained over his alleged ties to the Gulen movement, according to Haberturk daily newspaper. The 35-year-old former footballer who player for, among other clubs, Fenerbahce and Besiktas, was detained as part of an investigation into the movement a few days ago and released only after he tipped off

A letter sent by a Turkish prisoner to a journalist was censored by an unprecedented method and just three sentences of the letter left behind, wrote the online news outlet Artı Gerçek. Describing the example as a black humor, the news outlet stated that this censorship has been experienced in Turkish prisons where rights violations

Political scientist and columnist Mümtaz’er Türköne has reportedly been put in solitary confinement by a Turkish court. According to Abdulhamit Bilici, former editor-in-chief of now-closed Zaman daily, Türköne, a renowned columnist for the Zaman daily who is standing trial for alleged links to a coup attempt and membership in a terrorist organization due to his

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled that several Cumhuriyet daily journalists who were arrested on Nov. 12, 2016 on terror charges will remain in pretrial detention, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. The İstanbul 27th High Criminal Court scheduled the next hearing for March 9, 2018 for Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, reporter Ahmet Şık, CEO Akın Atalay

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s co-chair (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has reportedly said he would rather wear a shroud than a uniform in court appearances, in response to a new mandatory dress code measure that has been imposed by the Turkish government. “We would rather wear a shroud than wear a uniform and bow in front of fascism,”