{"id":13186,"date":"2026-06-27T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:57:00","slug":"turkey-cleanup-operation-ahead-of-nato-summit-178-people-jailed-on-terrorism-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13186","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: \u201cCleanup\u201d Operation Ahead of NATO Summit \u2013 178 People Jailed on Terrorism Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1843\">     A few days before the <strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1706\">summit of NATO<\/strong>, to be held on <strong data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1755\">July 7 and 8<\/strong>, the Turkish authorities launched a new wave of detentions on terrorism charges in various regions of the country. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1845\" data-end=\"2101\">     According to the state news agency <strong data-start=\"1878\" data-end=\"1889\">Anadolu<\/strong>, which cites a statement from the <strong data-start=\"1943\" data-end=\"1954\">Ankara<\/strong> prosecutor\u2019s office, <strong data-start=\"1956\" data-end=\"1986\">178 of the 225 people<\/strong> who had been taken into custody have now been remanded in custody, while <strong data-start=\"2046\" data-end=\"2058\">34 people<\/strong> have been released on probation. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2103\" data-end=\"2240\">     <strong data-start=\"2141\" data-end=\"2178\">32 heads of state and government<\/strong>, including the president of the <strong data-start=\"2212\" data-end=\"2219\">U.S.<\/strong>, Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"1marx5o\" data-start=\"2242\" data-end=\"2317\">     <strong data-start=\"2245\" data-end=\"2317\">Journalists and civil society representatives in the crosshairs<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"2319\" data-end=\"2576\">     The Turkish <strong data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2378\">NGO MLSA (Media and Law Studies Association)<\/strong> reported yesterday that among those arrested are <strong data-start=\"2434\" data-end=\"2451\">journalists<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2453\" data-end=\"2468\">academics<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2470\" data-end=\"2483\">lawyers<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2485\" data-end=\"2502\">union members<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2504\" data-end=\"2521\">teachers<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2523\" data-end=\"2535\">students<\/strong> and other members of civil society. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2578\" data-end=\"2809\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">     Among those who have been detained is <strong data-start=\"2618\" data-end=\"2633\">Yildiz Tar<\/strong>, editor-in-chief of the magazine <strong data-start=\"2664\" data-end=\"2681\">LGBT+ Kaos GL<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2685\" data-end=\"2699\">Emel Memis<\/strong>, a professor of economics at the University of <strong data-start=\"2745\" data-end=\"2756\">Ankara<\/strong>, as well as <strong data-start=\"2770\" data-end=\"2785\">Nevzat \u00d6zer<\/strong> from the <strong data-start=\"2800\" data-end=\"2808\">Tema<\/strong> Foundation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    A few days before the NATO Summit, which will take place on July 7 and 8, Turkish authorities carried out a new wave of arrests involving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}