Behçet Oktay

A fugitive suspect in the murder of a Turkish scholar researching the FETÖ terror group will remain under house arrest, a Ukrainian court said on Jan. 22.

The Kiev Court of Appeals was evaluating the prosecutor's office's objection against keeping Nuri Gökhan Bozkır under house arrest.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has obtained CCTV footage of a supermarket which showed Turkish academic Necip Hablemitoğlu shortly before he was killed in 2002. Hablemitoğlu had branded the FETÖ as a criminal organization in his books.

Ukraine has arrested the suspected murderer of Turkish academic Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish security sources said on Dec. 16.

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office had launched an inquiry seeking a possible connection between the alleged "parallel state structure" and a series of alleged murders in Turkey between 2002 and 2013, as well as a deadly 2006 attack against the Council of State in which a judge was killed.