Today In Crackdown

Hüsamettin Özaydın, a father of four and an English language teacher who was removed from his job at a Siirt school, has reportedly passed away following a heart attack. According the Magduriyetler.com, a web portal that reports post-coup abuses, Özaydın was dismissed with the government’s post-coup emergency decree, No 672, in late October 2016. The […]

A Turkish man has attacked a demonstration in Germany’s Nuremberg, held in solidarity with the children jailed along with their mothers in Turkey. In a video recording posted by journalist Fuat Baran on Twitter the other day, the assailant is heard swearing at the group before physically attacking some of them. Turkey Purge has failed

A Kayseri man, identified only with his initials G.A., was detained for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his social media accounts. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec 24 that G.A. was rounded up by police and taken to a nearby police station for interrogation. Anadolu said G.A. is also accused of making propaganda

A total of 2,756 people, including 105 academics, have been dismissed from state institutions by two new government decrees, known as a KHK, that went into effect on Sunday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The Turkish government issued two new decrees numbered  695 and 696  under the post-coup state of emergency, which were published

People who were imprisoned over “offenses against Constitutional order” are now required to wear dusty orange and gray jumpsuits, according to the government’s latest post-coup decree, issued early Sunday. “Those behind bars who were convicted of offences against the Constitutional order and who were arrested pending trial over similar charges will be brought to the

Two new decress issued by the Turkish government on Sunday morning granted a whole scale immunity for all crimes, including murder, committed by civilians to supress a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and “any event that is a continuation of it”. According to the decrees, numbered  695 and 696, these civilians can no longer

The number of complaints filed over post-coup rights abuses hit 103,276 on Dec 22, the government-established State of Emergency (OHAL) Procedures Investigation Commission said. Nearly 147,000 people have lost their jobs since last summer as part of the government’s crackdown in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, which targeted Turkey’s Gulen movement, Kurdish

A Samsun couple, both judges who were earlier removed from their offices over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison. O.F.K. and his wife F.K. appeared in their final hearing, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec 20. The couple pleaded not guilty to the charges

The veteran Turkish journalist Halil İbrahim Balta, who was arrested and put behind the bars after a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has reportedly overcome two serious life-critical health problems in last 15 days, however he was not allowed to meet his family. “Having been detained for 17 months, journalist Balta is not

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Garo Paylan on Wednesday said he has confirmed intelligence that exiled opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan including Alevi and Armenian leaders, journalists and academics will be exposed to assassination or a series of assassinations in Europe, CNNTürk reported. “I confirmed it from various sources last weekend. I