Today In Crackdown

Yasir Kaya, a speaker and the former news director of Fenerbahçe football club’s TV channel was taken under custody over his alleged use of ByLock mobile app, on Friday. Earlier, Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 35 journalists including Kaya. Turkish authorities believe using ByLock is a sign of being a member of […]

Turkish police broke the arm of Gülsüm Elvan, the mother of Berkin Elvan, who was killed during the Gezi Park protests in 2013, while detaining her during a protest on Friday in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district in support of imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on a hunger strike for over 150 days. According to the

Turkish police teams on Wednesday detained at least 43 individuals on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, Turkish media reported. In Kayseri, a total of 26 people, including public servants, lawyers and housewives were detained on Wednesday, according to the Milliyet daily. Four others are still being wanted by the

Detention warrants have been issued for 35 journalists over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLocDetention warrants have been issued for 35 journalists over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the report, as part of an investigation run by the İstanbul

Mülkiye Demir Kılınç, a 32-year-old mother of twin babies was put under arrest after the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld her conviction on terror charges. Detained along with her twin babies on the road to the western province of Aydın on Aug 6, Kılınç was sent to jail. Sentenced to 2 years and one month

Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was dismissed from the Ankara University law faculty under a state of emergency decree-law, has not been allowed to study at the communication faculty of the same university despite passing the entrance examination. Ankara University added an article to a regulation issued on Aug. 8, 2017 and said students who earned

Turkish police teams on Tuesday detained 16 people, including a stallholder woman in an Aksaray-based coup probe on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the Doğan news agency reported. One of the alleged ByLock users Gülen D. was detained in a market place where she was selling tomatoes and pepper.

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 157 people have been detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gülen movement, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched into 2,696

At least 448 people were detained across Turkey as part of investigations into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, Interior Ministry said 448 were detained over their alleged links to the movement on between July 31 and August 7.