Çendrim Ramadani

A lawyer who withdrew March 5 from defending suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, saying that the defendants were ?neither beasts nor human beings,? said he was threatened the very same day.

The police have now provided a guard for him, said Nail Gündüz, one of the three lawyers who withdrew from the case after being appointed by the Bar.

A court has postponed to June 17 the trial of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who attacked a Turkish gendarmerie post in the Central Anatolian province of Ni?de, after the lawyers of the defendants withdrew from the trial on March 5.

The defendants' lawyers said they did not want to plead and left the court room.