Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office

The assassin of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, repeatedly studied his target's photo on the Internet, according to the police investigation into the Dec. 19 killing. 

Altıntaş, who killed Karlov during a photo exhibition in Ankara's Center of Modern Art, looked at the pictures from his housemate's computer, daily Habertürk reported on Jan. 3.  

Detention warrants have been issued against a total of 70 police officers over their suspected links to the Fethullahist Gülenist Organization (FETÖ), which is widely believed to have masterminded the failed July 15 coup.

Police officers who were removed from their posts with state of emergency decrees were among those who were subjected to warrants.

An Ankara court on Dec. 26 issued a temporary broadcast ban on media coverage on news related to the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov who was gunned down on Dec. 19 in Ankara, according to a judicial source.        

Russian officials will examine the phone of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, who killed Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov late on Dec. 19, as part of a joint investigation between Russian and Turkish officials regarding the assassination of the envoy.

Police carried out an investigative search at the Student Selection and Placement Center's (ÖSYM) top secret unit for preparation of questions for Turkey's central higher education exams, amid accusations of cheating leveled at the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled on Nov. 22 that the seizure and confiscation of all copies of a magazine published by the Ankara-based LGBT rights group Kaos GL, for more than five years, violated freedom of expression.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has completed an investigation into an intelligence network by the Gülen Movement, under the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, within the police which wiretapped and placed secret cameras at the residences of a number of victims between 2008 and 2012.

The Interior Ministry has filed a criminal complaint against lawmakers from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on allegations that it used the disappearance of local politician Hurşit Külter, who surfaced in Kirkuk following months of questions about his fate, as a tool of propaganda.

Ankara has warned officials in the United States that they should detain Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen before he escapes to another country, in a temporary detention request sent by the Turkish Justice Ministry to Washington on Sept. 13. 

A total of 18 companies under Koza-İpek Holding have been brought under the control of Turkey's state fund, in line with the investigation into the failed July 15 coup attempt, daily Habertürk reported on Sept. 9.