Istanbul police

Five Turkish football fans have been detained, after the police established a special task force to investigate the murder of 25-year-old Marko Ivkovic, who was killed Nov. 21 before a Turkish Airlines Euroleague game between Galatasaray Liv Hospital and Red Star Belgrade in Istanbul.

Istanbul police have established a special task force to investigate the murder of 25-year-old Marko Ivkovic, who was killed Nov. 21 before a Turkish Airlines Euroleague game between Galatasaray Liv Hospital and Red Star Belgrade in Istanbul.

A supporter of the Serbian basketball club Red Star was stabbed and killed on Nov. 21 in Istanbul in front of the venue where a Euroleague game between Galatasaray Liv Hospital and the visiting side was being played.

A 54-year-old man has turned himself in to Istanbul police, confessing that he kept his wife’s body for two years after killing her.

The man, only identified as İ.K., reportedly killed his wife in 2012 in the Thracian province of Kırklareli after suspecting that she had cheated on him.

Overpass collapses on busy Istanbul highwayOne person was killed and four others were injured after pedestrian overpass on Istanbul’s busy E-5 highway collapsed in the Avcılar district during the morning rush hour on Sept. 3.

The accident took place after the dump of a truck carrying liquid glucose opened and hit the overpass.

Police forces in Istanbul and nearby cities have launched calculated drug raids, detaining dozens and seizing large amounts of drugs and chemicals Aug. 7-8, in an attempt to diminish the rising use of synthetic drugs in Turkey’s cities.

Hundreds of Istanbul police conducted raids in several Istanbul districts, aided with the support of helicopters.

Police forces in Istanbul and nearby cities have launched calculated drug raids, detaining dozens and seizing large amounts of drugs and chemicals Aug. 7-8, in an attempt to diminish the rising use of synthetic drugs in Turkey’s cities.

Hundreds of Istanbul police conducted raids in several Istanbul districts, aided with the support of helicopters.

The suspects detained on charges of “illegal wiretapping, spying and fraud” in an operation on July 22 had been monitoring the private lives of the people they allegedly wiretapped illegally, according to authorities.

Yurt Atayün, the former head of the Istanbul anti-terror police department, has told an Istanbul court that he personally briefed the prime minister on faulty intel that was used in operations against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

At least eight of police officers, who were sent to court with demands for their arrest as part of operations targeting the “parallel state,” were arrested in Istanbul on July 25.