Istanbul police

Suspected members of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have taken prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at Istanbul courthouse in connection to the case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan.

Gunshots have been heard at the building.

The Istanbul Police Department has finally sent the identities of the policemen suspected of shooting dead Gezi protest victim Berkin Elvan, a full year after the 15-year-old passed away following 269 days in a coma.

Elvan was shot with a tear gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters on June 16, 2013, and succumbed to his injuries on March 11, 2014.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has ruled out placing British ?police spotters? in Istanbul in order to stop foreigners from travelling across the Turkish border to join jihadi militant groups in Syria and Iraq.

Britain is seeking to better help Turkey prevent foreigners crossing into Syria to join jihadist groups, the chairman of the U.K.'s Home Affairs Select Committee stated on March 3.

"I do not think it is the job of the Turkish police and the Turkish authorities to chase our citizens. This all has to be done with cooperation," said Keith Vaz at the committee.

Istanbul police detained a man in front of the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 27, after he threatened to detonate a bomb he said he was carrying.

Turkish police sealed off a street outside the consulate after the suspect was detained.

Turkish police have discovered the wiretapped recordings of 101 high-profile persons, including the president and the prime minister, on two hard disks located in the Istanbul anti-terror department, as 29 police officers have been detained as part of a similar operation on Feb. 8.

Turkish authorities have refused to declare when and how the Russian suicide bomber who detonated herself in Istanbul last month had entered Turkey over her "privacy rights."

An Istanbul court has arrested two policemen involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit and Özkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul. 

An Istanbul court has arrested a policeman involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit, one of two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul. 

Six people, including three foreigners, have been detained in relation to the Jan. 6 suicide bomb attack at an Istanbul police station in the touristic area of Sultanahmet.

The suspects were taken to the city's Ça?layan courthouse and were set to be interrogated by public prosecutor Okan Özsoy at anti-terror branch office.