Istanbul police

Very important evidence has been accessed during the interrogation of Reina nightclub murderer Abdulkadir Masharipov, who was caught by Istanbul police on Jan. 16. His capture alive helped give information about several of his connections.

Istanbul police are searching for a third militant in the deadly December 2016 terror attack outside Beşiktaş football club's Vodafone Arena. 

The militant, images of whom suggest is female, is suspected of acting together with and supervising the two militants who carried out the bomb attacks at two sites in downtown Istanbul, claiming at least 45 lives. 

An outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) militant who attacked the Istanbul police headquarters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters late on Jan. 20 was apprehended by police in the northwestern province of Tekirdağ on Jan. 22. 

One person was detained on Jan. 21 when police opened fire into the air after a truck broke security barrier in front of police headquarters in Istanbul, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The Istanbul Governor's Office stated that the brake of the truck failed as it broke security barrier in front of the headquarters, noting that it was not a terror-related incident. 

Istanbul police on Jan. 21 detained five suspects over the rocket attacks that targeted the provincial police headquarters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul on Jan. 20 evening.

Security forces raided 15 addresses across Turkey's largest city, and five people were taken into custody over suspected links to the attackers.

The mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Eve was carried out professionally with the involvement of an intelligence organization, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said Jan. 16.

Istanbul police's human smuggling bureau has exposed a massive smuggling gang that operates in a number of European states and facilitates the illegal travel of both national and foreign migrants as well as criminals to Western European countries.

Ankara prosecutors will examine the computers of the Student Selection and Placement Center's (ÖSYM) as part of a probe into the Gülenist network's alleged theft of the questions on some of the tests over the last 15 years. 

An Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspect who returned to Turkey after defecting from the group has been released from detention because he had a "fixed residence."

Turkish designer Barbaros Şansal on Jan. 3 was beaten by a group of assailants on the apron of Istanbul Atatürk Airport upon arrival after being expelled from Northern Cyprus over insensitive social media posts, which prompted his detention at the airport by Istanbul police.  

An Istanbul court later ordered the arrest of Şansal on charges of "inciting hatred among public or insult."