Today In Crackdown

A group of academics who were fired from their universities with decrees issued by the Turkish gov’t in the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt, has opened a coffee shop with a small library in the southern Turkish province of Mersin. Purge-victim professor Ayşe Gül Yılgör, assistant professor Ulaş Bayraktar, research assistant Galip Deniz Altınay, activist Nalan […]

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday submitted a request to the Justice Ministry for a red notice for former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who fled Turkey for Germany last year. According to a Cumhuriyet daily report on Thursday, the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to the General Directorate of

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the US to extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in return for releasing American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016. Erdoğan’s remarks came on Thursday during the police academy graduation ceremony in Ankara. Criticizing the US for not taking any action

Gökhan Güçlü, a noncommissioned officer and one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of a failed coup last year, face up to 5 years in prison for wearing a T-shirt that bore the word ‘hero’ during a hearing. The prosecutor in charge also seeks 5-year

A dismissed teacher, identified only by initials H.Y.Y., and an Istanbul businessman, A.B., have been detained during their second attempt to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece. H.Y.Y. and A.B. were briefly detained for attempting to illegally cross Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne’s Serem village on Sept 24. Two days after the incident, gendarmerie stopped

At least 17 people were detained as part of an Aksaray-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15,2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday. An Aksaray prosecutor issued detention warrants for 18 individuals who were earlier removed from their jobs under post-coup emergency rule. Police carried out operations in Aksaray

At least 11 businessmen were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in the central Anatolian province of Konya, on Tuesday. Arrest warrants were issued for 17 business professionals and police rounded up 11 of the suspects, who are accused of having used ByLock mobile app. Police still seek the remaining 6 people. Turkish

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Bursa deputy Ceyhun İrgil has said the Turkish government is blacklisting employees who worked at places closed down by government decree and employees who were fired by their employers due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused of mounting a coup attempt in Turkey last year. According to

At least 970 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 970 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Sept 18 and 25. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July

An 8-year-old boy was stripped of his T-shirt that bore the words ‘Super Dad’ during a visit to his father, under arrest for at least 14 months in Turkish government’s post-coup dragnet. A recent tip submitted to Magdur Mesajları, a Twitter account known for solidarity postings for Turkey’s post-coup rights victims, has allegedly shown that