Today In Crackdown

An Adıyaman court arrested a total of 10 people on Friday in Adıyaman province as part of an investigation into users of ByLock, a smart phone application that Turkish authorities believe is a communication tool among followers of the Gülen group. The Adıyaman Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants on Sept. 7 for 40 […]

A family of 5 were detained while hiding at a hunters’ club in Ipsala district of Edirne, Turkey’s border province with Greece, on Sept 14. Gendarmerie rounded up the couple as well as their three children, aged 2, 6 and 9. The state-run Anadolu news agency said that the couple, identified only with their initials

Photojournalist Çağdaş Erdoğan was arrested after spending 12 days under custody, on Sept 13. Detained while taking photos in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district on Sept 2, Erdoğan was put in pretrial arrest on accusations of membership to a terrorist organization on Wednesday. Erdoğan is alleged to have taken pictures of a building that belongs to the

Gokhan Ozbek, a freelance journalist and an outspoken critic of Turkey’s post-coup abuses, was detained for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sept 14. “I am being detained on accusations of insulting the Presidency, in Istanbul… Goodbye…” Ozbek tweeted early Thursday. Ozbek has become known for his outspoken criticism against post-coup rights violations and

Turkish-Dutch businessman Ali Ekrem Kaynak was shot dead in Amsterdam on Sept 11 while a local source claimed that his links to the Gulen movement may be behind the shooting. The 48-year-old Turkish expat, who was attacked in head last year too, was gunned down in front of an Amsterdam branch of his fast food

A total of 14 people were detained near Turkey’s maritime border with Greece with most of them escaping from the government’s post-coup crackdown. Izmir police carried out an operation in the coastal district of Cesme where the suspects had reportedly gathered to go aboard and sail through the Greek island of Chios, on Wednesday. The

A total of 10 women in Manisa’s Kula district were detained for their ties to associations linked with the Gülen movement, on Tuesday. The women, either former personnel or members of the government-closed associations in Kula, were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the

A group of police officers are reportedly waiting outside the delivery room in Niğde Hayat Hospital in order to detain Büneyye Ö., who just gave birth, the Shaber3 news website reported on Wednesday. According to the report, police are now at the hospital to detain the woman over her alleged links to the Gülen group,

Detention warrants issued on Wednesday for a total of 79 people who used to work for private schools and private training centers that were shuttered by the government over alleged links to the Gülen group. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office issued the detention warrants as part of an investigation into

Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, in jail since July 29, 2016 over her alleged links to the Gülen movement, will reportedly be denaturalized from her Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) citizenship for allegedly allowing the followers of the Gülen movement on the island to use her residence there, pro-government Sabah daily reported on Monday. According