Today In Crackdown

An Ankara court has ruled to continue already a-year-long imprisonment of Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) who was awarded with the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Arslan is accused of, among others, helping the followers of the Gulen movement […]

Bülent Tezcan, deputy chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is being investigated after he called President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a “fascist dictator,” Turkish media reported. The Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday launched the investigation after Hüseyin Aydın, a lawyer for Erdoğan, filed a criminal complaint against the CHP’s Tezcan for the “crime of

Irfan Bayar, a municipal worker in Kastamonu and a former soldier who was wounded in a clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 1997, committed suicide after an investigation was launched against him for sending his kid to a private school affiliated with the Gülen movement. According to media on Thursday, Republican Peoples’

An anonymous witness in Denizli failed to identify any of the 145 suspects, earlier accused of being followers of the Gulen movement, during a court hearing on Oct. 30. The secret witness, called Aslan, told during the court appearance that he doesn’t know the suspects by name but that he is sure about their affiliations

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 3158 people were detained, with 1127 of them put in pre-trial detention in operations targeting Turkey’s Kurdish minority, and the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses

An İstanbul court on Tuesday ruled that Cumhuriyet daily journalists who were arrested on Nov. 12, 2016 on terror charges will continue to remain in pretrial detention. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency the İstanbul 27th High Criminal Court decided that Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, reporter Ahmet Şık and CEO Akın Atalay will remain

Technology journalist M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 failed putsch, on Wednesday. According to Turkish media, Kuzuloğlu was detained for his alleged used of ByLock, an encrypted mobile app that Turkish prosecutors claim to be the top communication tool

Turkish police have detained four journalists from different media outlets over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. According to the Gazete Duvar news portal, Şule Çizmeci, a former reporter for now-closed Radikal daily, was detained in İzmir’s Datça district on Wednesday. It was reported that

Prominent pro-Kurdish NGO the Human Rights Association (İHD) has stated that in Turkey there are 1,025 prisoners in poor health, 357 of whom are seriously ill, subjected to deplorable conditions, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Speaking at a press conference held by the İHD Diyarbakır branch and Diyarbakır Chamber of Medical Doctors, İHD Diyarbakır branch

Three people were detained in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, Dogan news agency reported on Monday. Dogan said one of the detainees had been under investigation over over his links to the Gulen movement while the remaining two were suspected to be ByLock users. ByLock is