Today In Crackdown

At least 809 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 809 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Oct 2 to 9. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 […]

A Kirsehir court handed down 10-year prison term each to seven people who used to work as managers at the student dormitories, closed over their links to the Gulen movement, on Oct 4. During the final hearing of a trial against the movement in the central Anatolian province of Kirsehir, eight former dormitory managers including

Fifteen people in Kahramanmaras province were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of leading the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Monday. State-run Anadolu news agency reported that 15 suspects including doctors, students and teachers were rounded up over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish

There has been no trace of Turkish teacher Mesut Kacmaz and his family since they were abducted by a group of people in police uniforms in Pakistan 15 days ago. Kacmaz’s parents, worried over the safety of their children, are seeking help from the United Nations. [VIDEO] Parents seek UN help as no news from

An indictment prepared against 11 rights defenders including Amnesty International’s (AI) Turkey Director İdil Eser seek 15 years in jail for each of the suspects over terror charges. The human rights activists were detained during a workshop at a hotel on İstanbul’s Büyükada on July 5. While three of them were later released pending trial,

A Malatya-based couple, identified with initials H.Y. and I.Y., were detained along with their two kids near Greek border in Edirne province, on Friday. The family was reportedly on their way to escape Turkey to Greece as they fear government persecution in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. H.Y. worked as a teacher at

Police teams armed with machine guns raided tens of student houses and detained at least 69 more people as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, the state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) reported on Saturday. According to the report, 50 people, including university students, were rounded up in the central Turkish province of Konya as

A staff member in US consulate in Istanbul, known as M.T., was arrested on charges of military and political espionage against Turkish government, on Monday. M.T., a communications officer at the consulate was taken into custody on Sunday and put in pretrial detention on Wednesday. According to the investigation, M.T. allegedly had regular phone calls

Fourteen more companies in Turkey’s western province of Aydin have been seized by the government as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, accused of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. The movement denies involvement. Trustees were appointed to fourteen companies that were owned by nine businessmen who has been under investigation over

İstanbul and Ankara prosecutors have issued detention warrants for at least 254 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, in İstanbul, the warrants include 112 former and active duty staff members of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality and 18 other