Today In Crackdown

Turkey has detained another man for wearing a ‘hero’ T-shirt on Saturday. According to media, a 20-year-old Trabzon man, identified as A.G., was taken under custody while he was in a crowd watching the scene of a traffic accident in Arakli district where a car crashed into a convenience store. A.G. was handcuffed before being […]

Pro-Kurdish Diha news agency reporter Mehmet Siddik Damar was put in pretrial detention over his social media posts on Friday. According to media, Damar visited the courthouse in Mardin’s Kiziltepe district to give his testimony over terror charges. The prosecutor overseeing his case sought Damar’s arrest by the court in charge which jailed him on

Nine teachers were detained in Turkey’s Malatya province as part of an investigation into the followers of the Gülen movement, on Friday. The teachers are accused of using ByLock mobile application, which the prosecutors claim a primary communication tool among sympathizers of the movement. Detention warrants were issued for 10 teachers who were earlier dismissed

A Samsun court put ten Beşiktaş sports club fans in pre-trial detention for holding banners that read “Nuriye Semih Shall Live” in support of two jailed educators who are on the 162nd day of a hunger strike, Turkish media reported on Thursday. According to the reports, 10 fans whose houses were raided and who were

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 70 Finance Ministry staff members over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. The suspects were previously dismissed from the ministry with a government decree issued after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

Nine Turkish journalists detained for using ByLock last week, have officialy been arrested and sent to prison while two others were released pending trial, P24 news portal reported on Thırsday. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Aug. 10 issued detention warrants for 35 journalists who are accused of membership in the Gülen group due

13 journalists, including Turkish pop singer and columnist for now-closed Meydan daily Atilla Taş, are ready to appear before an Istanbul court on August 16 for taking part in or supporting a coup attempt in Turkey last year. The suspects were initially acquitted after the first hearing held in April, yet were re-detained before their

A 58-year-old prospective Hajj pilgrim was reportedly detained on coup charges at İzmir’s Adnan Menderes Airport on Thursday night. According to a Twitter account named Kaç Saat Oldu? a woman identified as Hanife Işılak was taken into custody while she was waiting to get on a flight to Jeddah, on her way to the holy

Author and human rights activist Murat Çelikkan, who was handed down an 18-month jail sentence in May, is going to be imprisoned for 13 months unless he is allowed to enjoy judicial probation after spending 45 days in prison, the Diken news website reported. Çelikkan, who stood trial for serving as “editor-in-chief on duty” for

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment two police officers battered two İzmir women who asked for help from them about a harassment incident late on Friday. Claiming that they were sexually harassed by two youngsters with motorbikes, women, identified with initials D. and S., reportedly asked for help from the two police officers. However, a