{"id":12608,"date":"2026-02-14T06:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/12608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:44:05","slug":"turkey-expands-crackdown-on-left-wing-opposition-as-arrests-climb-to-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/12608\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey expands crackdown on left-wing opposition as arrests climb to 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ESP.webp\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"696\" height=\"368\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ESP-696x368.webp.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ESP\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of three more people as part of an ongoing investigation targeting the left-wing Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), bringing the total number of arrests in the crackdown to 80, Turkish media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The latest arrests were ordered by the \u0130stanbul 7th Criminal Magistrate of Peace, which on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evrensel.net\/haber\/5970218\/ceylan-yayinlarinin-temsilcisi-huseyin-gultepe-tutuklandi-tutuklu-espli-sayisi-78e-yukseldi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent<\/a> H\u00fcseyin G\u00fcltepe, a representative of the left-wing Ceylan Publishing, to pretrial detention. A day earlier, the same court had <a href=\"https:\/\/etha15.com\/haberdetay\/tutsak-sosyalistlerin-sayisi-80e-yukseldi-219543\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered<\/a> the arrest of two ESP members, Onur Yolda\u015f Mete and \u0130brahim Halil Do\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests are part of a broader crackdown that <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkey-detains-dozens-in-sweeping-operation-targeting-left-wing-groups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began<\/a> with police raids on February 3 across 23 provinces. Of those initially detained, 47 were <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-court-orders-arrest-of-47-people-including-left-wing-opposition-members-and-journalists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> on February 5, with another 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/number-of-arrests-in-turkeys-left-wing-crackdown-rises-to-77\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> on February 6.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen publishing houses <a href=\"https:\/\/etha15.com\/haberdetay\/yayinevlerinden-ortak-aciklama-yayimcilik-suc-degildir-219558\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a> a joint statement condemning the arrest of Ceylan Publishing employees, denouncing what they described as the criminalization of books and publishing. The signatories called for an end to increasing restrictions on freedom of thought and expression.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to G\u00fcltepe\u2019s arrest, another Ceylan Publishing employee, Sonnur Sa\u011flamer, had been jailed, while company owner H\u00fcsn\u00fc Fuat Uygur was put under house arrest as part of the same investigation.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fclay Hatimo\u011fullar\u0131, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy (DEM Party) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birgun.net\/haber\/otoriter-rejimin-karsisindayiz-692418\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visited<\/a> ESP headquarters, along with the co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and representatives from the People\u2019s Democratic Congress (HDK) in a show of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Hatimo\u011fullar\u0131 said they would continue to stand against what she described as a regime that denies people their right to political participation and uses the judiciary as a tool of intimidation against opposition groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of three more people as part of an ongoing investigation targeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[9681,312,9682,9683,149,9684,429,153,131,132,9685,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-12608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-ceylan-publishing-house","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-huseyin-gultepe","11":"tag-ibrahim-halil-dogan","12":"tag-left-wing-political-groups","13":"tag-onur-yoldas-mete","14":"tag-oppression","15":"tag-socialist-party-of-the-oppressed-esp","16":"tag-stockholm","17":"tag-sweden","18":"tag-tulay-hatimogullari","19":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}