Today In Crackdown

Intimidating paintings have been sprayed on the walls of the historic St Theodoros Trion Church in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Nevsehir. “The priest is not in, he has gone to the mosque!” read the offensive slogan on the church’s walls, Haberturk daily reported on Nov 19. A dog figure was also painted on the […]

A former tax inspector who was earlier removed from his job over alleged ties to the Gulen movement was detained after he was involved in a minor traffic accident. The 37-year-old man, identified as O.A., was caught in Eskisehir when police, dispatched to the accident scene, noticed that he has already been under an Izmir-based

Police have detained at least 331 Turkish soldiers in Tekirdağ province in Turkey’s Marmara region as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, which Turkish authorities blame for a failed coup last year. According to the Hürriyet daily, a Tekirdağ court has recently issued detention warrants for 331 soldiers as part of an investigation

Cumhuriyet daily’s website editor Oğuz Güven was given 3 years and 1 month jail time on two separate terror charges on Tuesday. Arrested in May due to a tweet on the newspaper’s Twitter account regarding the death of Denizli Chief Public Prosecutor Mustafa Alper, who was killed in a car accident in the southwestern province

At least 666 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 666 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Oct 13-20. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while

Feti Ün, an Izmir lawyer who represented Fethullah Gulen from 1990 to 1994, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of membership to a terrorist organization. The court in charge initially ruled for 8-year jail time and then increased the imprisonment by half to 12 years in compliance with the anti-terror laws. Under

The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Joon H. Kim, former SDNY Attorney Preet Bharara, and some others who are involved in the prosecution of the Turkish Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab. The investigation was launched on the grounds that

Zafer Biryol, a former top scorer at Turkey’s national football league was detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement early Friday. The footballer turned soccer coach was detained at Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office, media said. Biryol scored 25 goals in 34 matches he showed up under Konyaspor jersey and was honored the

Turkish police on Friday detained 22 former and current academics and staff members at İstanbul-based Marmara University as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 42 academics and staff at the university on accusations