Today In Crackdown

Detention warrants have been issued for 50 former and nine on duty 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. According to the report, as part of an investigation ran by Ankara Prosecutor’s Office, Turkish police launched […]

Gendarmerie detained a 25-year-old cook at a hotel in Antalya’s Alanya district as part of a Denizli-based investigation into the Gülen movement on Thursday. Denizli Public Prosecutor’s Office earlier issued a detention warrant against the cook, identified as M.A., state-run Anadolu agency said adding that law enforcement located him at an Antalya hotel. Turkey survived

Turkish authorities have requested information from their counterparts in 162 countries about the 7,990 companies that have ties with the businesses investigated over post-coup terror charges, pro-government Sabah newspaper said Wednesday. The investigation targeted 140 Turkish companies, charged of having links with the Gülen movement, which is accused by Turkish government to have masterminded the

An indictment seeking up to 15 years in prison for German-Turkish journalist Meşale Tolu on charges of disseminating the propaganda of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been accepted by the İstanbul 29th High Criminal Court, the Etkin news agency (ETHA) reported on Friday. ETHA reporter and translator Tolu, who has been in pretrial

An Istanbul prosecutor has launched an investigation into the popular Turkish TV series, Çocuklar Duymasın over a book linked with the Gülen movement that was spotted as a in the background during last week’s episode. Barış Köprüleri: Dünyaya Açılan Türk Okulları [Bridges of Peace: Turkish Schools Opening to the World] appeared on the shelf as

Two out of four local journalists in Turkey’s Gaziantep province who were earlier detained for releasing an interview with jailed businessman Ahmet Selim Ener, were put in pre-trial arrest, on Wednesday. Ener was previously imprisoned over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup in Turkey

Under arrest for nearly 5 months, retired police chief Ahmet Tatar has passed away after a heart attack in Osmaniye prison. Tatar, retired from his position as the head of the Diyarbakır Regional Police’s traffic division in 2015, suffered a heart attack on Aug 1 and was taken to a Osmaniye Public Hospital where he

Prepare for some serious coffee to be spilled because Turkish activist Barbaros Şansal has a book deal. Back in January, Şansal was beaten up by an angry mob who gathered on an Istanbul airport tarmac and then was put behind bars by an İstanbul court due to a video he posted on New Year’s Eve.

The Ankara Governor’s Office announced on Tuesday that all protest activities in support of imprisoned hunger striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça has been banned for a period of one month, the Birgün daily reported. According to a statement released by the governor’s office on Wednesday, Turkish intelligence (MIT) “warned” the governor’s office that sit-in

According to data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), the number of children who were brought to police stations increased by 10 percent in 2016 over the previous year. Out of 333,435 children who were brought to police stations, 54.8 were between 15-17 years old, 23.2 percent were between 12-14 years old and 21.9 percent