Today In Crackdown

A Turkish health worker has been given 6 years, 6 months and 22 days prison sentence over alleged membership to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Ali İhsan P., who was working as a health worker at […]

At least thirty-nine civilians, including doctors, imams and housewives, have been detained by police in six major Turkish provinces over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. In Samsun, 15 teachers, 1 doctor, 1 shopkeeper and 1 former employee of now-closed Gülen-affiliated

Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in front of Silivri Prison, which mainly hosts people jailed over links to the Gülen movement, and set it on fire, similar to the Madımak Hotel in Sivas when an angry mob

The management of the Nevşehir prison has conducted a search on holding cells and seized all radio receivers in order to prevent them from “getting secret messages” from outside. Local media outlets with pro-government editorial policy earlier published several news articles claiming that people detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement receive confidential

21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to media. A fourth-grade at the Istanbul-based Bogazici University’s Faculty of Education, Ölçer jumped to her death from her family house’s balcony in Buca, Izmir on Saturday. Local media reported that Ölçer

A group of police officers reportedly await outside Private Yalova Hospital in order to detain a woman who had given birth several hours earlier, according to tweets posted by the woman’s family members. Havva Hamamcıoğlu, whose husband was recently detained by police over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, gave birth late on June 10,

A high criminal court in the southern province of Adana has applied to Turkey’s Justice Ministry demanding the revocation of the Turkish citizenship of journalist Bilal Öğütçü over terror charges on Saturday. The Adana representative of the Zaman newspaper and the Cihan news agency until they were shut down by the government in the aftermath

Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN officials stopped his deportation to Turkey at Baku Heydar Aliyev International Airport on June 7, his wife said. In a video shared on social media, Fatma Şentürk said her husband was

Ten people, including three members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP), were sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Cumhuriyet reported on Saturday. According to the report, 10 people were accused of insulting Erdoğan in a press statement in the Salihli district of Manisa province following a

At least 11 people have been detained as part of a Balikesir-based investigation into the Gulen movement on Thursday. The detainees included 5 academics from the Balıkesir University, 2 imams, 1 security personnel, 2 construction workers and 1 retired citizen. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15ö 2016 coup attempt while the