Today In Crackdown

At least seven people were detained while they were on their way to escape Turkey to Greece, Dogan news agency reported on Friday. Gendarmerie rounded up seven suspects near Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne province. While 5 of them were taken to a nearest police stations, whereabouts of the children are yet to be reported. […]

Journalist Tuğrul Eryılmaz was given a suspended jail sentence of 15 months and TL 6,000 in fine over his participation in a solidarity campaign with the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper. The sentence was suspended, according to the media. The Özgür Gündem daily was earlier accused of promoting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and shut

Kurdish Writer and journalist Vedat Çetin was detained in Diyarbakır on Friday as part of an investigation into the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Congress (DTK). Çetin was detained after police raided his house in Diyarbakır early on Friday. He was taken to the Diyarbakır Police Department as part of an investigation into the DTK, the Evrensel

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM) Director Şaban Kardaş was detained at his home in Ankara on Friday as part of an investigation in which prominent human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala was arrested on Thursday. According to the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily, Kardaş was taken to İstanbul for questioning. Turkish police on Thursday

An Ankara court on Friday ruled for the release of Semih Özakça and continued the pretrial detention of Nuriye Gülmen, who went on a hunger strike in May after they were fired from their jobs by a government decree following a failed coup last year. According to the T24 website, the Ankara 19th High Criminal

A Turkish man, identified with his initials M.Ö., was detained after he attempted to leave Turkey to Greece with his passport, which, he later found out, had been cancelled by the government in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed putsch. M.Ö. handed over his passport to be stamped by police at Turkey’s Ipsala

Halil Aykul, a mechanical engineering professor and the former dean of the engineering faculty at Turkey’s Hitit University, was sentenced to 6 years, 10 months and 15 days in jail over terror charges. Dismissed from his faculty job over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, professor Aykul was earlier arrested as part of a

Mehmet Ünlü, a medical professor and the chief physician at the Kocatepe University hospital in Afyonkarahisar until he was dismissed over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. According to Kronos online news portal on Thursday, Ünlü rejected allegations raised against him however, was given 12 years of

Turkish government has been seeking the extradition of a German citizen in Ukrained, identified as Kemal K., over murder charges while the accused says the request is politically motivated. Kemal K. was detained at Kyiv’s Zhuliany International Airport upon an Interpol warrant issued by Turkey, on July 23, this year. Even though he was released three

Turkish national Zabit Kişi was abducted from a plane by a group of unknown people in Kazak city of Almaty, his wife said in a recent video recording during which she also expressed concerns over Turkey’s long arm abroad. Social media accounts familiar with the issue supposed that Zabit had links with Gulen movement, which the