Revolutionary People's Liberation Party

An outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) militant who attacked the Istanbul police headquarters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters late on Jan. 20 was apprehended by police in the northwestern province of Tekirdağ on Jan. 22. 

Istanbul police on Jan. 21 detained five suspects over the rocket attacks that targeted the provincial police headquarters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul on Jan. 20 evening.

Security forces raided 15 addresses across Turkey's largest city, and five people were taken into custody over suspected links to the attackers.

Rocket attacks on Jan. 20 targeted police headquarters in Istanbul and the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) local headquarters, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

In Cemilli village, located in the Mediterranean province of Mersin, there are 85 households and has a population of 300 residents. It does not have a health center or a school, but it is close to the city center. It has electricity and running water. The muhtar (village headman) has a computer. 

Prominent journalist Ahmet Şık has been kept in isolation in prison, according to his lawyer who recently visited him. 

Şık, who was arrested on Dec. 30, 2016, over several tweets and his articles for daily Cumhuriyet, was denied drinking water for three days and has not had access to the news, daily Cumhuriyet reported Jan. 6. 

Two people who appeared in a viral video in which a man called for secularism in the Okmeydanı district of Istanbul were arrested on Jan. 3 on charges of "openly provoking people to hatred and enmity." 

The activities of 94 associations allegedly "threatening national security" and with links to terrorist organizations across 20 provinces have been terminated as a part of a decree law issued under Turkey's ongoing state of emergency, the Interior Ministry stated on Dec. 30.

An Istanbul court on Dec. 30 ordered the arrest of prominent journalist Ahmet Şık, one day after he was detained over several tweets and his articles for daily Cumhuriyet.

Earlier in the day, Şık had been referred to Çağlayan courthouse following his proceedings at the police headquarters. 

Sixteen militants from the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have been "neutralized" in anti-terror operations in the eastern province of Tunceli since April 2016, according to the military.

The supreme leader of Turkey declared at a routine congregation of village headmen at his extravagant palace that he had decided to declare a national mobilization against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gang and its extensions under various names, the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) zealots as well as the "Fethullah Terror Gang" (FETÖ) and the Revolutionary People