Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office

Turkish intelligence officers have detained an Egyptian-born terror suspect wanted by Washington who was a top explosives expert for ISIL, state media reported on May 24.

The suspect, identified as Mustafa Abdulwahab Mahmud and born in 1999, was detained with three others on the outskirts of Istanbul after fleeing Syria, the reports said.

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has concluded that former British military intelligence officer James Le Mesurier, who was found dead in front of his office in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district late last year, died from falling from the terrace of his house, closing the case into his death.

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has said that the raid on a villa in Turkey's northwestern province of Yalova was based on information pointing that one of the Khashoggi murderers contacted a Saudi businessperson residing there.

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has said that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled right after he entered the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, while also confirming earlier media reports that his body was "dismembered."

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan has slammed a prosecutor's decision to extend the detention period for the party's lawyer, Celal Çelik, who had been in detention for over 10 days as part of the investigation into the Gülen network.

Fourteen lawyers of imprisoned hunger-striking educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça were arrested by a court order on Sept. 20, broadcaster CNN Türk reported on Sept. 21.

Celal Çelik, the official lawyer of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, was detained in Ankara as a part of an investigation into the Gülen network.

Seventeen lawyers of two imprisoned hunger-striking educators have been detained two days before the first hearing of their case, in which the educators are accused of being members of a terrorist organization. 

A police officer was stabbed to death in Istanbul on Aug. 13 by a suspected member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who had been detained for planning a suicide attack, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has demanded up to five years in jail for a man on charges of marketing banned medicine as an "abortion pill" on various Internet sites, daily Habertürk reported on Aug. 10