Ankara court

Authorities on June 16 freed the top advisor to Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım detained on suspicion of links to the movement of US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen accused of masterminding the July 2016 failed coup attempt. Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was released under judicial supervision.

An Ankara court made its ruling on June 15 in the case accusing 27 soldiers of abducting Secretary General of Presidency Fahri Kasırga on the night of Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt, handing down aggravated life sentences to 18 of the defendants and life sentences to five others, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

Popular Turkish actor Barış Atay was briefly detained on June 15 in the town of Dalyan in the Aegean province of Muğla, as part of an ongoing case over charges of insulting a former adviser to the prime minister, Doğan News Agency has reported.

An Ankara court ordered the release of the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç under judicial control on June 9, four days after he was arrested on charges of being a member of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to be behind the failed July 2016 coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

An Ankara court has awarded the family of a victim who was killed in an Ankara twin bomb attack, done by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in October 2015, a total of 500,000 Turkish Liras ($141,000) in damages for mental anguish, daily Milliyet reported on June 6.

An Ankara court has awarded the family of a victim who was killed in an Ankara twin bomb attack, done by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in October 2015, a total of 500,000 Turkish Liras ($141,000) in damages for mental anguish, daily Milliyet reported on June 6.

The European Court of Human Right (ECHR) has sentenced Turkey to pay a total of 8,523 euros (nearly 34,000 Turkish Liras) in compensation in a case into two surgeries that left a patient with severe neurological damage. 

The values of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are "rapidly weakening," former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, commenting on a file that emerged online in 2016 that called for the resignation of several figures from the AKP. 

The arrested son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç told an Ankara judge that he had accepted the presidential post of a Gülen-affiliated institution because Arınç told him it would be "beneficial" for him to be in charge of such an organization.

An Ankara court on June 5 ordered the arrest of the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç after police detained him as a part of the ongoing investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), accused of being behind the failed July 2016 coup attempt.

Ekrem Yeter was detained at his residence and later referred to the prosecutor's office to testify.