Office's Terror and Organized Crime Bureau

The organizers of a protest in Switzerland, at which some demonstrators held up a banner calling for the assassination of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will not be charged, media reports said May 8.

The trial into the "media leg" of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have orchestrated the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt, has begun in Istanbul with a total of 29 suspects. 

Investigations have been launched into a banner that targeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a rally by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) supporters in the Swiss capital Bern. 

Probes into the banner, which read "Kill Erdoğan" and carried a picture of a gun aimed at his head, have been launched both in Turkey and Switzerland, after Ankara reacted harshly against it. 

A prosecutor's indictment has stated that an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant conducted reconnaissance for possible attacks on the Turkish Parliament, local ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters, and mosques, Doğan News Agency reported on Feb. 8.

Doğan Holding Chief Legal Advisor Erem Turgut Yücel and the holding's former executive Yahya Üzdiyen, who were detained as a part of an investigation into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), were released on Jan. 13 with a ban on travelling abroad.

A Turkish prosecutor assigned to terror cases escaped unharmed late on Dec. 7 after unknown assailants fired on his car in Istanbul's Sultangazi district.