Today In Crackdown

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected the petitions of 70,071 people who were purged from state institutions by means of decrees issued under an ongoing state of emergency in the country on the grounds that domestic judicial remedies have not yet been exhausted. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, the court announced on Friday that […]

A public prosecutor in Turkey has decided to drop an investigation into the death of a teacher who was subjected to torture during detention at police headquarters in İstanbul, according to  the TR724 news portal.  Gökhan Açıkkollu, a 42-year-old history teacher, was detained on July 24, 2016 and kept in police custody for 13 days

Aliye Şenoğlu, a public official working at Adana’s Seyhan municipality and a member of opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been put in pre-trial detention for criticizing a series of events held by the Turkish government to celebrate the first anniversary of the defeat of last year’s failed coup attempt. On the first anniversary of a

An Ankara prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 50 former and nine current Science, Industry and Technology Ministry staff members over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday. The warrants were reportedly issued as part of an investigation run by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s

Turkey’s Contemporary Journalists’ Association (ÇGD) President Tevfik Kızgınkaya said on Saturday that more than 900 press cards were cancelled and 151 are now in jail as part of a media crackdown following a failed coup in July 2016. Speaking with dokuz8 website on Saturday, Kızgınkaya said “the media crackdown in Turkey is just reminiscent to stock market

On August 5, 2016. Gökhan Açıkkollu, a history teacher suffering from diabetes, died of torture in police custody as part of a post-coup investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Detained on July 23, 2016, Gokhan was a history teacher at a state-run

I.K., a former deputy police chief in Gaziantep’s Sehitkamil district who was dismissed in the government’s post-coup crackdown, was detained when he visited a local State of Emergency (OHAL) commission in Sivas to reclaim his rights. The government earlier established OHAL commissions across the country in order to investigate applications directly related to the loss

At least 30 people including teachers, businessmen, and public servants in Tekirdağ province were detained over their alleged use of ByLock mobile app on Saturday. Turkish authorities believe using ByLock is a sign of being a Gülen follower as they see the mobile phone application as the top communication tool among the group. Then government

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Thursday that his government would not allow anti-China activities in Turkey and would take measures to eliminate media reports targeting the Beijing administration. Speaking during a news briefing in Beijing along with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, Çavuşoğlu said, “We take China’s security as our security,” according to Reuters. China

An Azerbaijan national, identified as N.Ş., was rounded up for wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “part time hero,” in the eastern province of Kars and deported from Turkey. The incident came amid consecutive detentions of people who wore ‘hero’ T-shirts across the country. According to media on Wednesday, N.Ş. was detained and was taken