Today In Crackdown

An arrest warrant has been issued for renowned Turkish international soccer player Hakan Şükür for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his son on his Twitter account, the Evrensel daily reported on Tuesday. An İstanbul court decided to issue an arrest warrant for Şükür for failing to attend court hearings and whose address in […]

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 40 individuals including academics and staff members at the Ankara-based Turgut Özal University which was closed down by the government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt last July due to its links to the Gülen movement. The academics and staff members are

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat was sent to prison late on Monday due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to several tweets posted by a friend of the disabled journalist, when Arat learned that a prison sentence

Turkish police have seized 4,806 passports and detained 132 people at İstanbul Atatürk Airport as part of investigations into alleged followers of the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of organizing a failed coup attempt last July, the pro-government Sabah daily reported on Monday. According to the report, additional measures were taken

Meliksah Kultur, a 41-year-old former police officer who was dismissed as part of an administrative investigation launched against him, was found dead at an apartment in the central Anatolian province of Konya on July 7. Kultur reported told one of his friends that he was not doing well and that he needed to rest his

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), on Friday expressed serious concern at the detention of eight human rights activists in İstanbul on Wednesday, calling on the Turkish government to release them immediately. “These arrests, which took

Georgian authorities have rejected an asylum application made by Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who has been under a three-month extradition arrest since May 25, the T24 news website reported on Saturday. “The asylum application made by Mustafa Çabuk and his family was rejected. There is no reason for such a decision. The application should

Speaking to the press after the G20 summit in Hamburg, Erdoğan said that police, acting on a tip from the Turkish intelligence, raided a hotel in İstanbul’s Princes’ Island where eight human rights activists and two trainers were attending a digital security and information management workshop. The Turkish president signaled that the detention of the

A total of 965 companies with a total value of TL 41 billion [$ 11.32] billion in assets have either been transferred to Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF), or trustees have been appointed to their management by the government since a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli