Today In Crackdown

Under arrest for more than 8 months over coup charges, Gökçe Fırat, the leader of the National Party (UP) and a columnist for the Türk Solu weekly magazine was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in jail for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday. Fırat is accused of using intimidating expressions against Erdogan, […]

An İstanbul prosecutor has submitted an indictment seeking three consecutive life sentences for former İstanbul Governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu and former Police Chief Hüseyin Çapkın over their links to the Gülen movement, which Turkish authorities accuse of being behind a failed coup last summer. According to the indictment submitted by İstanbul Public Prosecutor Emine Koçak

Seventy-three teachers, who were earlier dismissed from their jobs, were detained in an Istanbul-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday. Istanbul police carried out operations to detain the suspects over their use of ByLock, a controversial mobile application that the government claim

Muhammet Furkan Sökmen, a Turkish national working for two schools established by Gulen movement followers in Myanmar, was forcibly returned to Turkey despite his cries for help on social media. He was arrested after spending 9 days under detention, on Monday. An Hatay court ruled on Sokmen’s arrest on June 5. Sökmen called for “help

Twelve teachers were detained in a Malatya-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday morning. Police carried out operations in Malatya and Adiyaman provinces, and detained 14 suspects. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the detainees included those who were earlier dismissed from

Turkish prosecutors, on Tuesday, issued detention warrants for 47 people working at Turkey’s education and energy ministries over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. Thirty of the individuals work for the Education Ministry, while 17 work at the Transportation

The Evrensel daily’s managing editor Çağrı Sarı and former license owner Arif Koşar have been given suspended five-month sentences on charges related to Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). Article 301 criminalizes denigration of the Turkish nation, the Turkish state, the Turkish Parliament, the government of the Republic of Turkey and the legal

An indictment drafted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks two consecutive life sentences for 13 people, including prominent Turkish journalists and pop singer Atilla Taş, on coup charges. The journalists named in the indictment are National Party (UP) leader and Türk Solu weekly columnist Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Yakup Çetin, Bünyamin Köseli, Cihan Acar,

Ekrem Yeter, the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, was arrested by a court after his detention in Ankara early Monday as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group. Yeter was detained at his residence in Ankara and sent to a prosecutor’s office to testify. After a prosecutor referred him to an

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has released the list of 130 people who are currently abroad including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and two deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who will be stripped of citizenship if they do not return to the country within three months. The list was published in the Monday version of