Today In Crackdown

At least 20 people including small business owners and former public workers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs over links to the Gulen movement were detained in Manisa on Wednesday. The detainees are accused of ByLock, the controversial mobile application that that government say once-primary communication tool among the followers of the movement. Turkish […]

Diyarbakir police detained Amedspor player Deniz Naki due to the social media posts authorities find insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday. Following a police interrogation, the footballer was released once authorities concluded that the implicated Twitter account is not used by Naki but a fan group. Earlier, Naki was given suspended prison sentence of

Former international goalkeeper Ömer Çatkıç was detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.  According to several Turkish media outlets, Çatkıç is accused of using a smart phone application known as ByLock.  Turkish authorities

Ten teachers were detained in Turkey’s Malatya province as part of an investigation into the followers of the Gülen movement, on Tuesday. Detention warrants were issued for 10 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs over ties to the movement. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and wounded

Cicek Otlu, the chairman of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) was arrested on accusations of membership to a terrorist organization on Tuesday. Otlu had been detained as part of a Tunceli-based investigation in Ankara on Monday. During her appearance before the court, Otlu said she sees the decision as a move to block her

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has said his wife has received threats in voicemail by people motivated by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The way Erdogan does this [criticizes the minister] motivates some people to try to harass and bother my wife,” Gabriel was reported as saying by Welt newspaper. Relations between Turkey and Germany has detoriated

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 7 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 255

Doğan Akhanlı, a Turkish-born German author was detained by Spanish police at Turkey’s request on Saturday. With the charges raised against him remaining unknown, German officials said the move was politically motivated. Having fled Turkey to Germany in 1991, the 68-year-old author was detained at a hotel in the Spanish city of Granada over an