Today In Crackdown

A total of 895 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 895 were detained over their alleged links to the movement on between July 10 and July […]

An Istanbul court put in pre-trial arrest six human rights activists including Amnesty International’s (AI) Turkey director Idil Eser, on early Tuesday. Turkish police, acting on an anonymous tip, raided a hotel on Büyükada, one of the Princes’ Islands off İstanbul, and detained Eser from AI, İlknur Üstün from the Women’s Coalition, lawyer Günal Kurşun

37-year-old goalkeeper of Kastamonuspor 1966 football club was put in-trial arrest over his alleged used of ByLock mobile app on Monday. Oğuzhan Bahadır was among 6 people who were earlier detained for ByLock use. The court overseeing their case in Kastamonu province arrested Bahadır along with three of them with the remaining released either on

O.K., a teacher who was previously purged from his job by a government decree after a failed coup in 2016, was detained when he visited a state of emergency bureau to object to his dismissal on Tuesday. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, O.K. was detained as part of an investigation into Gülen movement

At least 115 people in Tekirdag province were detained over their alleged use of ByLock smartphone app, state-run media said. According to Anadolu news agency, arrest warrants were issued for 127 people who allegedly used the application while police were able to locate 115 suspects during the operation. Detainees included businessmen, journalists, imams, bankers, hospital

Enraged at Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu calling the July 15, 2016 coup attempt a “controlled coup” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday lambasted the opposition leader, calling him a “coward” for his behavior on the night of the failed coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. “Some insistently say ‘controlled coup.’ They

Yeliz Koray, managing editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper, was detained on Saturday night and referred to court for a critical article about the government turning a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016 into a “saga.” After reactions and calls for an investigation into Koray for her article, which was put online on Friday,

A total of 4,521 judges and prosecutors were dismissed from their jobs over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK). Speaking to state broadcaster TRT on Thursday, HSK’s inspection committee head Yunus Nadi Kolukısa said 4,521 judges and prosecutors were expelled from profession thanks to administrative investigations

Two journalists working for the Dihaber news website, Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman, were detained on Thursday evening in the southeastern province of Gaziantep based on “reasonable suspicion,” the Artigerçek news website reported on Friday. According to the report, Alayumat and Akman, who were following news on the southern Turkish border between Hatay and Gaziantep