Crime in Turkey

Athens is bracing for a tense weekend after the Greek government banned protests during the two-day official visit of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, which coincides with commemorations for the 2008 murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6.

Anti-terror police have launched separate operations in Istanbul against the YDG-H and the DHKP-C

The Istanbul police’s intelligence department monitored or accessed the web and email traffic of everyone living in the Marmara region, including Istanbul, according to two documents that have surfaced within the scope of a large wiretapping probe on police.

Three suspects were to face a prosecutor over the weekend following their arrest by members of Greece’s anti-terrorism squad in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, late Friday.

An Istanbul criminal court has sought jail time for a group of May Day protesters who were detained during clashes with the police for the slogans they chanted.

Four of 11 suspects who were sent to court after anti-terror raids on May 26 in Istanbul’s Okmeydanı neighborhood were arrested late May 29 on charges of “committing crimes on behalf of a terrorist organization.”

A Thessaloniki court on Thursday rejected an appeal by Turkish authorities for the extradition of Mehmet Yayla, an alleged member of the outlawed leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C) who was arrested in the northern port in January on an Interpol warrant.