Today In Crackdown

More than 150 Turkish academics are ready to appear before an İstanbul court on Tuesday for signing a peace declaration in early 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern Turkey. The academics face terrorism charges and could receive jail terms of […]

Three employees of Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab were detained as part of the Turkish government’s latest response to the businessman’s guilty plea in a US trial that implicated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s close circle. Zarrab’s employees Sinem Arslan, Regaip Akol and Mustafa Hacısalihoğlu were rounded up at Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office, Hurriyet daily newspaper

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to keep in prison former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu, who was jailed in March 2015 after he revealed an alleged government plan to “eliminate the Gülen movement” based on a secret document he published in 2013, the T24 news website reported. According to the report, Baransu said he

A Kurdish-language audio library, opened specifically for disabled children in 2014, has been shut down after the government seized the administration of the Diyarbakir Municipality over terror charges. Diyarbakir Municipality’s Social Services Unit established a web portal for the audio library where children’s stories were available to be listened in Kurmanji, Dimilki and Sorani dialects

A prosecutor on Friday demanded a life sentence in an İstanbul court for main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu for leaking information to journalists for a report on National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks transporting weapons to rebels in Syria, CNN Türk reported. The court also ruled to close the proceedings in Berberoğlu’s

A total of eighty-five military officers were arrested in separate operations targeting Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the suspects from were arrested as part of an investigation carried out by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. They are accused of being linked

The İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for former CIA official Graham Fuller as part of an investigation into a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, Hurriyet reported. According to the report Fuller is accused of “attempting to overthrow the government, attempting to subvert the work of the government,

Former speechwriter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and current ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Aydın Ünal on Monday threatened Gülen movement people in Turkey, saying tougher days lie ahead as a result of a case against Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who was arrested in Miami in March 2016 on

There are at least 230,735 people who were arrested and put behind bars in prisons across Turkey, according to the Justice Ministry. In response to a parliamentary question by the opposition deputy Gamze Ilgezdi, the ministry said 230,735 arrestees were recorded to be in Turkish prisons as of Nov 1, 2017. The corresponding number was

Former Justice and Development Party (AKP) Yalova deputy Şükrü Önder has been given 6 years, 3 months prison sentence over alleged membership to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to the T24 news portal, a Yalova high criminal court made the ruling with Önder’s use