Today In Crackdown

Turkish government has imposed at least 381 curfews in the southeastern region of the country between Aug. 16, 2015 and January 1, 2020, according to the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV). The curfews directly affected almost 1.9 million people in 11 predominantly Kurdish provinces and 51 districts, TİHV said. Two hundred fourteen of the curfews […]

An Assyrian priest from the Mor Yakup Church, also known as Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis, in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin, was sent to prison on Friday, Turkish media reported. The reason for the arrest of the priest, Sefer (Aho) Bileçen, is not yet known due to the confidentiality of the investigation

Cafer Tekin İpek, the brother of Turkish businessman Akın İpek was sentenced to 79 years and 8 months in prison, in addition to a fine of TL 250,000, while his mother Melek İpek was given 11 years and 8 months in prison and a fine of TL 104,100. The two members of the İpek family

Turkish gendarmerie with duty military-type weaponry reportedly raided an Assyrian church in Turkey’s Nusaybin district on Thursday, detaining three Assyrian citizens, the ANF news reported. Among the detainees are Aho Bileçen, the priest of the church, Josef Yar, the headman of the  Üçköy neighborhood, and Musa Taştekin, an Assyrian man in the scene. Neither the

Garanti BBVA, a financial services company based in Turkey, refused to open a checking account to a purge-victim medical doctor because he had been dismissed from his job by a government decree in the aftermath of a 2016 failed coup. Pro-Kurdish HDP Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, the doctor, whose name was not disclosed in the

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) will gradually increase its capacity to carry out covert intelligence operations around the World. “In the near future, we are going to cut down on the inland duties of the Turkish intelligence in order to expand its capacity to carry out

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said during a live TV interview that it was not right to feel pity for the victims of a massive purge carried out by his party in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016. “On behalf of this nation, I am asking those who talk

Seynur Özdemir, a 36-year-old Turkish woman who suffers from Gardner’s Syndrome,  a rare genetic disorder, has been held in a Turkish prison for over over six months on terror, coup charges, the Bold medya reported. According to the report, on Özdemir’s leg, calf to thigh, is a 32-cm cancerous tumor. The purge-victim woman had spent

An İstanbul court has handed down life sentences to 70 air force academy cadets on charges of attempting to destroy the constitutional order by means of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The 70 military cadets, who stood trial at the İstanbul 24th High Criminal Court, were jailed for

A total of six journalists and one other employee of Sözcü daily, a government-critical newspaper, have been  convicted of “aiding the network of Turkey’s Gülen movement, which is accused of masterminding a failed coup in 2016. The movement denies any involvement in the atempt. Emin Çölaşan and Necati Doğru, two veteran Turkish columnists, were sentenced