Today In Crackdown

A regional Turkish court has approved a 15-months prison sentence for Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who called for an end to clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish security forces in Diyarbakır during a TV program in 2016, Cumhuriyet reported on Monday. According to the report Çelik, who said “Don’t let children die” during the “Beyaz […]

At least 20 people in 4 different Turkish cities were detained for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the government of being behind a failed coup in Turkey last year, on Monday. Turkish media reported that the suspects were rounded up over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish authorities believe

Nobody has suffered from the post-coup emergency rule except for terrorist organisations and their members, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Speaking during a ceremony held for the start of the new legislative year in Parliament, Erdogan said the post-coup emergency rule hurt only terrorists. “So far, except for terrorist organisations and their members,

Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) cameraman Binali Erdoğan was removed from his job over social media posts criticizing the country’s newly introduced executive presidential system. TRT’s discipline committee ruled, on Sept 26, to dismiss Erdoğan from his job as part of an administrative investigation, launched before the presidential referendum on Apr 16, 2017. According to

At least 38 people in 5 different Turkish cities were detained for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the government of being behind a failed coup in Turkey last year, on Friday. Turkish media reported that the suspects were rounded up over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish

The Turkish government’s blatant abuse of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to persecute, harass and intimidate critics and opponents is much worse than one might imagine, new research by the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), an advocacy group that tracks rights violations in Turkey, has revealed. The dubious and false charges filed by Turkey through Interpol

Ahmet Mandaci, a lawyer representing hunger striker teachers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, under arrest for over 2 months, was arrested. “We were told that lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was rounded up in the courthouse. Lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was arrested after the prosecutor objected his brief release,” a series of tweets by the People’s Law Bureau

Turkish security forces carried out 68,464 counter-terrorism operations in the past 12 months, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. Speaking to state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday, Soylu said some 40,000 of those operations targeted the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 25,000 were carried out against the followers of the Gulen movement and 2,109 against

At least 15 teachers who have previoulsy been dismissed from profession with decress issued by the Turkish gov’t, were taken into custody over their alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the authorities accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in the central Anatolian province of Aksaray issued on Thursday

At least 32 people in ten different Turkish cities for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the government of being behind a failed coup in Turkey last year. The CNN Türk website reported that 17 people in 10 provinces were detained over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish