Today In Crackdown

A total of 23 academics and public servants have been fired from their jobs at Turkey’s Giresun University over their alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. According to the university’s dean, Cevdet Coşkun, after the coup attempt, the university management formed a committee […]

Bügün TV — a now-closed station known to be affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group — has reportedly been sold to Burhanettin Türkeş, a Turkish citizen who served 74 months for his role in murder of Jewish businessman Nesim Malki. Malki, who was a businessman based in Istanbul, was killed in 1995 by gunmen who opened fire

Çağrı Sarı, the managing editor of leftist daily Evrensel has been given 11 months 20 days prison sentence for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the daily, Sarı found guilty for insulting the president in a column she publish on January 30, 2017. According to the court the following sentence is an insult to

Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s  most prominent businessmen and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, has been taken into custody by Turkish police upon his arrival to İstanbul’s Atatürk airport late on Wednesday night. According to T24 news portal, Kavala was detained upon his return from a visit to Gaziantep. The businessman was reportedy detained

Turkey’s leading pro-govenment dailies and journalists hang the flags out after Turkish teacher Mesut Kacmaz and his family were forcefully deported by Pakistani government to Turkey at the Turkish government’s request despite the family’s asylum certificates granted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Mesut Kaçmaz, his wife Meral Kaçmaz along with their two children were

The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday extended for three more months a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, the fifth such extension since it was originally put in force. Following a meeting of Turkey’s National Security Council (MGK) chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the

A prospective judge, known by his initials M.G., has been put in pretrial detention after he was arrested while on way to escape to Greece. An arrest warrant was earlier issued against M.G. as part of an Ankara-based investigation into the Gulen movement and law enforcement rounded him up as he was located near Greek

An Istanbul prosecutor launched investigation against journalist Ismail Küçükkaya and lawyer Fidel Okan for implying that the family issues minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya’s husband used the controversial mobile app, ByLock, on Tuesday. Küçükkaya and Okan tweeted on Monday that Kaya divorced her spouse after she found out that he had downloaded the ByLock app. To the

The former police chief of Diyarbakir’s Sur district was detained along with his brother in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were reportedly on their ways for an illegal exit to Greece. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, S.A., the police chief who was earlier dismissed over his alleged links to the Gulen movement,

The government-closed Zaman newspaper’s reporter in the northwestern province of Eskişehir was sentenced to 6 years plus 3 months in prison on charges of membership to a terrorist organization on Tuesday. Mehmet Kuru, a father of one and a long-time Zaman reporter pleaded not guilty during his final hearing while the court in charge sentenced