Revolutionary People's Liberation Party

Turkey's Undersecretariat of Public Order and Security has prepared an 802-page dictionary of key security terms, consisting of 564 entries and focusing on threats from various designated terrorist groups.

Imprisoned Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanding his immediate release, citing a court ruling from three years ago that his rights had been violated, daily Cumhuriyet reported on May 10.

Turkey has denounced a decision of Swiss authorities to not charge protesters who held a large banner featuring President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a gun pointed at his head during a demonstration in Switzerland in March, Doğan News Agency has reported.        

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.

Turkish police raided Belge Publishing House in Istanbul on May 7, seizing 2,000 books, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Belge was raided due to alleged links to the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) in the Fatih district's Cağaloğlu neighborhood, according to Cumhuriyet.

A "Yes" vote in the upcoming referendum on constitutional amendments is necessary to fight terrorism more effectively, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, accusing the opposition of supporting terror and standing against the interests of Turkey. 

A prosecutor has demanded an aggravated life sentence for İsmail Akkol, one of the prime suspects in the 1996 assassination of Özdemir Sabancı who was arrested 20 years after the Sabancı Holding board member's killing.

Akkol stands accused of "attempting to change the constitutional order by force of arms." 

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. 

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on March 26 summoned Switzerland's ambassador to Ankara to express its reaction over an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rally targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Swiss capital Bern.   

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on March 25 summoned Switzerland's deputy ambassador to Ankara to express their reaction over an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rally targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Swiss capital Bern.