Ankara court

Turkey's State Inspection Council (DDK) and President Recep Tayyip Erodoğan's key advisors will closely monitor trials in Ankara and Istanbul of suspects arrested for alleged links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) before submitting relevant reports to the president.  

An Ankara court ordered the arrest of Enver Altaylı on Aug. 27, a retired National Intelligence Organization (MİT) member, over his links to the Gülen network, widely believed to have masterminded last year's failed coup.

Germany has not responded to a diplomatic note from Turkey on Adil Öksüz, one of the key suspects in the cases into the failed July 2016 coup attempt, Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has stated. 

A family of three were arrested over an attempt to make the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in the Turkish capital Ankara, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Aug. 7.

TATP is mainly preferred by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda, as it cannot be easily detected by bomb-sniffing dogs or detectors.

In a landmark decision, an Ankara court has ruled that a private who had lost his life after getting sick during military service in the Central Anatolian province of Çorum should be considered "service-disabled," thus making it possible for his family to be given a state salary.

An Ankara court ruled "faulty" for a man who lost his eye during the Gezi protests in 2013 at the Turkish capital and also fined the Interior Ministry, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.  

Meral Aksener doesn’t run from fights. Turkey’s former interior minister is known informally as asena, or she-wolf. When the country’s military took steps in 1997 to remove the government from power, she took a stand against its leaders.

Teacher Semih Özaçka and academic Nuriye Gülmen were arrested on terror charges on May 23, on the 75th day of their hunger strike. The two educators decided to go on hunger strike after they were dismissed from their positions under the state of emergency rule that has been in place since July 2016, right after the failed coup attempt.

An Ankara court rejected the release demand of jailed Turkish educators who have been on hunger strikes for 108 days.

Teacher Semih Özakça and academic Nuriye Gülmen started their hunger strike demanding that they be returned to their positions, after they were removed with a state of emergency decree law.

A man working as a security guard in Ankara has been arrested for sexually abusing a German diplomat's 15-year-old daughter, daily Habertük reported on June 22.