Today In Crackdown

Mustafa Kaya, the district director of national education in Izmir’s Seferihisar was taken into custody over his picture taken near a ‘hero’ graffiti, on Friday. Kaya is accused of having links to the Gulen movement, which the government blames for the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. The movement denies involvement. According to Dogan news agency, […]

The number of German citizens in Turkish prisons have increased by one on Sept 15, according to Deutsche Welle. Martin Schaefer, a German foreign ministry spokesman, announced on Sept 11 that a German couple of Turkish origin was detained at an İstanbul airport. While the woman was immediately released on judicial supervision, her husband was

Ömer Turan, the editor in chief of the pro-government online news portal Manset24, was detained on Thursday. Turan was detained over a report, published in Manset24 early on the same day, about an alleged relation between National Intelligence Agency (MİT) head Hakan Fidan and Önder Aytaç, an academic and a columnist with an outstanding arrest

At least 41 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in İzmir, on Friday. Detention warrants were issued for 49 individuals from several occupational groups in İzmir, Konya, and İstanbul. While 41 of the suspects were rounded up, police were seeking the remaining 8 at the time of this writing. Turkish authorities

İzmir Chief Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 44 people including 33 lawyers as part of an investigation into İzmir Bar Associations due to alleged links to Gülen Movement, accused of orchestrating a coup attempt in July, 2016. According to a Cumhuriyet daily report on Friday, Turkish anti-terror police detained 26 people, some of

The crown of Miss Turkey 2017, Itır Esen, was taken away by contest organizers over one of her tweets on the anniversary of a failed coup in July 2016. According to T24, Esen’s crown was taken away and given to Aslı Sümen, the first runner-up. Esen deleted her Twitter account following the decision. On July

A Bursa man, identified only with his initials Ö.G., was briefly detained upon a complaint that he was wearing a ‘hero’ T-shirt, on Friday. Bursa police detained Ö.G. following a false tip-off which reported him to police as wearing a hero T-shirt. Police stopped Ö.G. near Bursa’s touristic Koza Inn and interrogated him. When they

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has identified 31,000 previously unknown ByLock users, among whom are employees of important public agencies, according to the state-run TRThaber news portal. According to the daily, the new list will soon be submitted to the Ankara Prosecutor’s Office for a formal indictment. Turkish government believes using ByLock is a sign

An İstanbul court arrested a total of 14 lawyers due to their alleged links to Far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the reports, 16 lawyers were detained as part of an investigation by İstanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office into DHKP/C. Among the arrestees are the two lawyers of

Two protesters who caused disturbance during a gathering in New York City at which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was giving a speech, were roughed up by some members of the audiences as well as what appears to be security details of Erdoğan, according to several media outlets. Some protesters had unfurled banners during an event organized by