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After Public Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who was investigating the controversial death of a young Gezi protest victim at the hands of the police, was killed by two members of an illegal and dubious leftist organization called the Revolutionary People?s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), the whole thing turned against the media and the opposition in Turkey.

Fifteen Turkish ecological activists could face up to seven-and-a-half years in jail after prosecutors charged them with public order offences over protests against the construction of a mosque in Istanbul last year, judicial sources said April 9.

On Monday, one of Turkey?s many pro-Erdo?an newspapers, Yeni ?afak, published a series of documents allegedly proving that Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, died because of poisoning. The plot to kill him was conspired in ?freemasonry lodges? and the culprits included ?smet ?nönü, Atatürk?s ?second man,? who replaced him as president when he died in 1938.

A Turkish lawyer has defended her clients, six policemen accused of beating a Gezi Park protester, by arguing that a police baton is a ?service tool, not a weapon.?

Turkish authorities blocked access to Twitter and YouTube due to the websites' refusal to remove photos of a public prosecutor, who was taken hostage last week and was later killed by his abductors.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has questioned why an autopsy report for slain prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz has been declared secret even after the incident was finalized.

Turkish authorities have blocked access to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook over the publication of photos published on the three social media platforms showing a prosecutor who was taken hostage by militants in Istanbul last week.

Political polarization has escalated in Turkey as the country is heading for a critical parliamentary elections on June 7.

Istanbul?s chief public prosecutor denied April 4 media reports that cited a medical examination showing that 10 bullets hit Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz during a hostage situation on March 31 in which both he and his two captors died.
         

After police witnesses took back their accusations against the Be?ikta? football fan group Çar??, an Istanbul court adjourned the April 2 hearing of a case in which 35 members of Çar?? are on trial for organizing a plot against the government during the 2013 Gezi Park protests.