Berkin Elvan

The courthouse in Istanbul?s Ça?layan Square is quite an odd architectural masterpiece. It is considered the largest courthouse in Europe. It took years and $250 million to build it, but it only took a couple of hours to destroy its credibility as well as the precious life of a prosecutor.

The two far-leftist militants who were killed by security forces after they took prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage on March 31 inside an Istanbul courthouse were laid to rest on April 2. 

?afak Yayla, one of the captors of 46-year-old Kiraz, was laid to rest in his hometown of Çanakç?'s Karabörk village, which is located in the northern province of Giresun. 

An investigation into seven Turkish newspapers for publishing the hostage photo of slain prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was launched on April 2.

We call "terrorists" those people who take up arms and commit acts of terror.
If terrorists render it much more difficult to shout out loud for democratic rights with their actions...
If they serve the dominant power by making it show its teeth more aggressively...
If their actions lead to renewed attacks on the memory of a 14-year-old child...

Istanbul prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who was killed in an operation against his two captors late on March 31, had made considerable progress in the cases of protesters wounded and killed during the Gezi Park protests in the summer of 2013.

Turkish police have detained 22 people in the southern province of Antalya in an operation against the outlawed far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a day after two militants with suspected links to the group took a prosecutor hostage in Istanbul.

Two suspected members of the outlawed DHKP-C group have been killed in an operation to free a captive Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday in Istanbul.

The prosecutor, however, has also died after being seriously injured during the operation that led to his rescue.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu imposed a temporary media ban on the coverage of the ongoing crisis in Istanbul, where a prosecutor had been taken hostage earlier on Tuesday.

Armed men, claiming to be from the banned leftist group DHKP-C, seized public prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in a courthouse in Istanbul.

A prosecutor in Turkey has been taken hostage by an armed anti-government group, as reported by Turkish media.

The photograph of the arrested prosecutor was displayed in social media, Al Jazeera reported.

Suspected members of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have taken prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at Istanbul courthouse in connection to the case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan.

Gunshots have been heard at the building.