Istanbul police

A total of 190 migrants have been captured in multiple locations in northwestern Turkey.

Some 113 migrants consisting of Afghans and Syrians were captured in an operation by the Turkish Coast Guard May 14 off the coast of the Ayvac?k district in the northwestern Çanakkale province. The migrants were trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos on a boat. 

Istanbul police stopped a group of lawyers protesting the May Day detentions in Istanbul?s Ça?layan courthouse, forcing them outside using riot shields on May 4.

Turkey marked May Day in places across the country with celebrations, apart from its largest city Istanbul, where riot police did not hesitate to use tear gas and water cannons to halt groups that attempted to rally in the streets to reach the symbolic Taksim Square. 

As demonstrations are underway throughout Turkey to mark May Day, Turkish police have taken extraordinary measures to prevent them, detaining at least 136 people, particularly around Istanbul's Taksim Square, which is on lockdown today.

Workers' unions have continued their calls to meet in Istanbul's Taksim Square for May Day celebrations, but the Istanbul Police Department has begun taking excessive security measures to prevent unions from gathering at the square after the governor's office prohibited rallies in the square.

A Spanish couple allegedly trying to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was taken into custody in Istanbul on April 18, according to police officials.

Spain had issued a "red notice" for Ahmad Debza, 33, and his wife, Nadia Fernandez Ataich, 27, both of Moroccan origin, Istanbul police officials said.

There still has not been a forensic report made public about the killing of prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz on March 31 during an act of terror by the militants of the outlawed Revolutionary People Liberation Party and Front (DHKP-C) as they raided his office in Istanbul?s Justice House.

The three recent terror acts in Istanbul that have shaken Turkey are linked under a "master plan," Education Minister Nabi Avc? has claimed, while a photo showing university students being detained by the police has been criticized.

Two suspected members of the outlawed DHKP-C group have been killed in an operation to free a captive Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday in Istanbul.

The prosecutor, however, has also died after being seriously injured during the operation that led to his rescue.

Two suspected members of an outlawed far-left group were killed by security forces after they took a prosecutor hostage at Istanbul's Ça?layan Courthouse on March 31.