Today In Crackdown

Muhammed B., the former manager of an Alanya-based student dormitory that the government earlier shuttered over its links to the Gulen movement, was detained at a private hospital where he stopped by for treatment, media reported on Tuesday. Muhammed B. had had an outstanding detention warrant for some time as part of an investigation into […]

Meryem Senturk, a Zonguldak woman and a mother of six, was arrested after police failed to locate his husband who has been under investigation over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, on July 19. According to Aktifhaber news portal, Senturk was detained and put in pre-trial arrest in Beycuma prison in Zonguldak before being

Director of Amnesty International (AI) Turkey Idil Eser, who has been jailed since her detention on July 5, has no visitors since she does not have any immediate family. According to government decree No. 667 issued under a state of emergency (OHAL) that was put into effect soon after a botched coup attempt in Turkey

A former court clerk who was earlier dismissed over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, O.G. was sentenced to 6 years plus 3 months in prison on accusation of membership to the Gulen movement. Among the evidences for his conviction were a deleted picture of Maqluba dish and photos of Fethullah Gulen allegedly recovered

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 151 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 2,697

An indictment prepared by a Van prosecutor is seeking a jail sentence of up to 10 years for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ for “disseminating terrorist propaganda” during a public rally in April 2016. Yüksekdağ were put behind bars along with eight other HDP deputies in November 2016. The indictment, prepared by the

17 suspects, including Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives who were arrested in November 2016, are ready to appear before an Istanbul court on Monday for the first time in an investigation into the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. An

Turkish police on Sunday detained 47 people including 22 women in Ankara protesting the arrest of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators who have been on a hunger strike for 137 days, Cumhuriyet reported. A video shows police breaking the arm of one protester while trying to take him into custody along with

A total of 831 people were taken into custody in the past week as part of investigations against followers of the Gülen group, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch,

Samsun police detained a man for wearing a Batman-themed hero T-shirt, Turkish journalist Can Ertuna tweeted on Sunday. He also claimed that the man was questioned by anti-terror police for three hours. The hero T-shirts have become a contentious issue when Gökhan Güçlü, one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President