Today In Crackdown

A dormitory manager in Turkey’s Gaziantep province, identified by his initials M.G., was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Nov 7. M.G., the last manager of a Gaziantep dormitory, established by the followers of the Gulen movement and shut down by the government in the aftermath of the […]

The İstanbul Regional Court of Justice has approved a 6 month, 20 day prison sentence for Turkish fashion designer Barbaros Şansal, several Turkish media outlets reported on Wednesday. The appeal made by Şansal’s lawyer right after İstanbul 43rd Court of Justice handed down a 6 month, 20 day prison sentence for Şansal in early June, has been finalized

A website has recently been set up for one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, Osman Kavala, who was put in pretrial detention on November 1 after spending two weeks under police custody. The website — osmankavala.org — contains reports that have appeared in different Turkish media outlets and some social activities

Turkish police have detained president of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), Selçuk Kozağaçlı, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. Kozağaçlı is the lawyer for famed Turkish educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who started a hunger strike in order to protest their dismissal under state of emergency decree-laws issued after a failed coup in Turkey last year. Özakça tweeted

A total of 2,274 educational institutions have been closed over their allged or real links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz. Speaking to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Yılmaz said that the fight against Gülenists will continue until “the

Manisa province’s Garrison Commander Brigadier General Yavuz Ekrem Arslan, under arrest over coup charges since July 19, 2016, has passed away at a hospital before seeing an indictment is prepared against him. Jailed only 4 days after the last year’s failed military coup, Arslan spent 259 days in a prison before being taken to the

At least 674 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 674 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Oct 30 to Nov 6. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15,

Nine people were detained in Turkey’s western province of Mugla while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Nov 4. Anadolu said the detainees had outstanding arrest warrants, earlier issued over their alleged use of ByLock. ByLock is a controversial, encrypted mobile app that Turkish government believes to

Jailed businessman and civil activist Osman Kavala said his imprisonment came just after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s words, implying that the judiciary ruled under pressure. “Just like the human rights defenders at Buyukada were targeted by the President Erdogan, I was arrested following Erdogan’s words,” Kavala told Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputies Veli Agbaba and

The passport of Erkan Baş, chairman of the People’s Communist Party of Turkey (HTKP), was seized by Turkish police at an İstanbul airport on Sunday, Sputnik reported. According to the report Baş arrived at İstanbul Atatürk Airport in the morning for a flight to Moscow to participate the 100th anniversary celebration of the October Revolution.