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Ogün Samast, the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has been put in solitary confinement over security concerns, daily Vatan reported on Sept. 1.

He had previously been serving his sentence in a three-person cell at a prison in the northwestern province of Kocaeli. 

A local Turkish court rejected an appeal to the detention of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu on June 15, a day after the MP was sentenced to 25 years in jail for espionage. 

The editor-in-chief of a now shut-down weekly magazine, who was sentenced to over 22 years in jail on May 22 for "inciting an armed uprising against the Turkish government," was arrested on May 24 in the northwestern province of Edirne while attempting to flee to neighboring Greece, a security source has said.

U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen and former prosecutor Zekeriya Öz have been named among the suspects in a third indictment prepared by an Istanbul prosecutor into the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Murat Şahin, who was arrested for attacking Turkish journalist Can Dündar with a gun, was released pending trial on Oct. 21, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Three of 25 suspects being tried on manslaughter charges in the case of an elevator accident that cost 10 lives last year in Istanbul were released Feb. 20, meaning no suspects remain behind bars in the trial.

The leader of the Islamic Great East Raiders Front (IBDA-C) militant group was released on July 22, after his lawyer’s demand for a retrial was accepted by the court.