2nd Criminal Court

An appeals court has resolved a dispute between two different courts on the legal files on jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, a disagreement that meant that the case was not processed for ten months.
 

A court in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on May 31 acquitted three defendants in a case of two murdered policemen in the Ceylanpınar district in 2015, Doğan News Agency has reported.  

The Şanlıurfa 2nd Criminal Court, in the fifth session of the case, also ruled for the continuation of imprisonment for four other suspects.

The bishop appointed as the Anatolian Apostolic Vicar by Pope Francis after the murder of his predecessor in the southern province of Hatay has held his first church service, in the ?skenderun district of Hatay.

The investigation launched by Istanbul's Bak?rköy Chief Prosecutor's Office about Do?an Media Group, to be conducted by the anti-terror prosecutor is based on a bunch of stories printed on one of the pieces of rags belonging to a pro-government media group. 

Journalist Mehmet Baransu has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Twitter during the latter?s time as prime minister.

Nine miners who survived the 2014 Soma mining disaster face six years in prison for breaching the law on demonstrations and willfully harming property during a protest to demand that the bodies of co-workers be extracted from the mine. 

The son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has lost a defamation case against a journalist who had reported an alleged corruption case.

Bilal Erdo?an sued daily Cumhuriyet reporter Canan Co?kun over a story published by the newspaper on Sept. 13, 2014. He claimed that the article ?insulted? him and demanded compensation.

Two Turkish cartoonists face up to two years in jail on charges of ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, over a satirical piece on free speech in which they allegedly included a hidden offensive gesture.

A headmaster and his partner have been charged for engaging in a homosexual act in public near his school in a conservative Turkish town.

One of the suspects accused of torturing and murdering three Christian missionaries in 2007 is set to take the Public Personnel Selection Examination (KPSS), an examination to join the civil service, on July 5.

Abuzer Yıldırım has been released on the condition that he will wear an electronic bracelet that will monitor his movements.