Today In Crackdown

The teachers working for the schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Kazakhstan fear reprisal in case they return back home, according to a recent report by the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). At least 27 Kazakh-Turkish schools have hosted dozens of teachers hailing from Turkey until very recently. When a military coup attempt hit […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for awarding the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize to jailed judge Murat Arslan, the president of the now dissolved Association for the Union of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), on Monday. In a statement on its website on Monday, Turkey’s Ministry

Twelve people were detained in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. Detainees include four children, a teacher removed from his/her job and dismissed public servants who worked as rapporteurs at the Prime Ministry until they were sacked in

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said NBA player Enes Kanter’s world tour was disrupted as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, on Wednesday. Speaking during a ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) meeting in Afyonkarahisar province, Çavuşoğlu said: “Some institutions affiliated with the movement used to have recognition within the

A number Islamic books written by Fethullah Gulen have been confiscated along with several copies of the now-closed Sizinti magazine during an anti-drugs operation in Turkey’s southern province of Adana. Anti-narcotics police in Adana’s Seyhan district raided a passage upon a complaint to seize opiate drugs on Wednesday. While four people were detained as part

The Samsun Barbers Chamber announced on Wednesday that they have banned all barbers in the province from doing American-style haircuts in support of the Turkish government in a row with the US, which suspended non-immigrant visa services in Turkey after a US Consulate staff member was arrested. According to the CNN Türk website, Samsun Barbers

Turkish police deployed tear gas to disperse tens of university students in İstanbul who were marching to commemorate the victims of a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 102 people near Ankara’s main train station on Oct. 10, 2015. According to a Twitter account run by a group of students from İstanbul University, at

Detention warrants have been issued for at least 70 more soldiers of various ranks as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish authorities of orchestrating a failed coup in Turkey last summer, DHA news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the warrants issued by the Konya Chief

An Ankara prosecutor has launched a probe against 7 people including Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the dismissed civil servant Veli Şaçılık. Veli Saçılık is a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. He has been staging protests

Amid visa crisis with the US over the arrest of a Turkish national working at the İstanbul Consulate General last week, media reported that Turkish authorities issued detention warrant for another US consulate staff on Sunday morning. According to a report by Hurriyet daily, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a detention warrant for a