Today In Crackdown

At least 34 people have been detained by Turkish police in Adana over their alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Evrensel daily reported. According to the report, a 70-year old imam named Yusuf Süne was among the detainees and he is accused of having membership in an “armed terrorist organization” and “attempting […]

Some interpreters, interviewers and security personnel within the Germany’s federal immigration authority (BAMF) are accused of leaking information regarding Turkish asylum claimants to the media outlets close to the President Recep Erdogan’s government in Turkey. A number of recent Turkish asylum claimants in Germany have been defamed as terrorist in the Turkish media shortly after their

An indictment seeking up to 15 years in prison for 11 prominent human rights defenders, including Amnesty Turkey’s director İdil Eser, has been accepted by the İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court, the Diken news agency reported on Tuesday. Charges against the Amnesty International-related human rights activists are reported to include “membership in a terrorist organization.” Charges

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 58 people on accusations that they linked with the Kimse Yok Mu aid organization affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday . According to the story, 31 of 58 people were detained during police operations in ten provinces across Turkey. The

Turkish prosecutors are seeking 12-year jail sentences for Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven, according to the Diken news portal. Oğuz Güven was put in pre-trial detention over a report that appeared on the Cumhuriyet daily’s website about the recent traffic death of Denizli Chief Prosecutor Mustafa Alper in Denizli province. Güven is accused of disseminating

the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for at least 77 people on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report, police have so far detained 14 of the suspects in simultaneous operations in İstanbul and Muğla provinces.

An indictment which has been prepared against now-closed Zaman daily reporter Yakup Çetin seeks two life sentence on terror charges, several Turkish media outlets reported. Çetin was arrested Augus 2016 on the accusations of “establishing a terrorist group” and “plotting to topple the government” based solely on 13 Tweet messages and one article. The 31-year old

Süleyman Başer, a media consultant for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) who spent 10 months in prison, said his septuagenarian mother had been stripped naked before visiting him in jail. Released after 10 months in prison over terror charges on Oct 3, Başer told media that he is not as happy as expected. “My

The pro-government Güneş daily said on Monday that Turkish teacher Mesut Kacmaz and his family were brought back home at Turkey’s request despite the family’s asylum certificates granted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In a front-page story on Monday, Güneş said Turkey brought the Kaçmaz family back despite their UN protection. 

Hardly a day goes without a news story about disappearances of Turkish nationals abroad. In a recent video recording widely shared on social media on Oct 16, a Turkish woman Birsen Kilic said her husband Enver Kılıç disappeared while flying from Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan. https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/x2waWoTVd3vziMHX.mp4 Social media accounts supposed that Enver had links with Gulen