Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office

A family in Ankara filed a criminal complaint against an online game titled "Blue Whale," indicating it was responsible for the suicide of their 24-year-old son. 

The Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office on Sept. 13 issued detention warrants for 79 people who previously worked at private schools and private teaching institutions closed with state of emergency decrees. Some 30 people have been detained in line with the warrant so far. 

Police on May 24 detained 39 municipality staff working for local governments in Ankara over their alleged use of ByLock, an encrypted messaging application linked to the Gülen movement, which is accused of perpetrating the July 2016 coup attempt.    

Earlier, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had issued detention warrants for a total of 79 municipality staff.

U.S. fantasy-drama Games of Thrones has been named in an indictment against a group of military officers allegedly tied to the group that planned Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt, a judicial official stated on May 17.      

The Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office on May 16 ordered the detention of 85 staff from the energy and education ministries in an investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which is believed to have been behind the July 2016 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office has launched a probe into a former French diplomat on charges of "instigation of the assassination of the president," a presidential spokesperson said on April 24.

İbrahim Kalın told a press meeting that a statement by Philippe Moreau Defarges was not an insult or a criticism but a call for an assassination.

The appointed lawyers for 36 suspects linked to last year's deadly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara have demanded to withdraw from the case, telling the court board that they do not want to plead in the case, which opened on Nov. 7.  

More than 100 detention orders were on Oct. 5 issued for military and intelligence personnel over alleged links to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, believed to have masterminded the failed July 15 coup attempt. 

Police detained a total of 26 suspects on Oct. 5 in an operation targeting the members of the Gülen movement, which has been blamed for the July 15 coup, in Turkey's army and intelligence services.

A suspect with alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was detained on April 8 in the eastern province of Bitlis over his alleged involvement in the deadly Ankara bombing on Oct. 10, 2015.