Today In Crackdown

Nazife Onay, one of the thousands of teachers who were removed from their jobs by decrees issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, was arrested after spending 12 days under police custody. Onay, a teacher of 11 years, staged a sit-in in protest of her dismissal […]

Murat Baran, the owner of the Kırsehir-based Baran pharmacy store and the president of the Kırşehir Ahi Businessmen Association (KAHİAD) until it was shut down by the government, was sentenced to 42 years and 6 months in prison. The court also handed over TL130,000 [$35,000] fine to him. Under arrest since May, 2016, Baran was

At least six lawyers from the İzmir branch of Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) have been detained by police, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Sunday. According to the daily, İzmir police raided 10 locations accross the province in wee hours of Sunday morning and detained 6 lawyers — Dinçer Çalım, Nergis Tuba Aslan, Şule Arslan, Bahattin Özdemir, Emel

A Turkish teacher named Uğur Toksoy was detained by Kosovo authorities just following a visit by Ankara Chief Prosecutor Yüksel Kocaman, over his alleged links to the Gülen movement on Friday. According to information given by his friends in Kosovo, Uğur Toksoy, an employee of the Atmosfera Educational Foundation Prizren, was detained by Kosovo police on

The half of Turkey’s population are not governed by the elected politicians, main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Saturday. “Can you imagine? The mayors are either being dismissed or forced to resign. The half of the population reside in those citizens where mayors were dismissed, resigned or replaced with the

A Sakarya court on Friday accepted an indictment against the sister-in-law and the father-in-law of Turkey’s major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, state-run Anadolu news agecy reported. The indictment drafted by the Sakarya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and seeks a life sentences and additional jail sentence of up to 15 years for the Öksüz’s sister-in-law Emine Sennur

Properties belonging to 12 media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule, were put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) on October 27. In a statement on Friday, TMSF listed properties belonging to Adana Medya Newspaper, Art Tv ve Art Radio, Haber Radio Ege, Herkül Fm, Htv Hayat

German citizen Peter Frank Steudtner and Swedish national Ali Gharavi, who were released on Wednesday after 112 days in jail along with six other human rights activists, left Turkey on Thursday, the Hürriyet daily reported. The two rights activists departed Turkey from İstanbul Atatürk Airport. An İstanbul court on Wednesday ruled to release eight human

A dormitory manager in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Samsun, identified by his initials F.T., was sentenced to 9 years and 9 months in prison, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Oct 24. F.T., the last manager of a Samsun dormitory, established by the followers of the Gulen movement and shut down by the government

At least 30 people were detained near Turkey’s maritime border with Greece with most of them escaping from the government’s post-coup crackdown, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday. Coast guard in Mugla stopped a jet-ski and a zodiac boat off the shores of the resort district of Bodrum, and rounded up 30 Turkish nationals, among them