Ergün Poyraz

An Istanbul court accepted an indictment prepared by a prosecutor against journalist Sedef Kabaş, who was arrested on Jan. 22 on charges of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two ministers.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blasted Kosovo's prime minister on March 31 for criticizing the secret deportations of six Turkish men who Ankara claims are terrorists with links to the now-outlawed network of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

The overturning by Turkey's top court of appeal of the so-called "Ergenekon coup plot trial," which was initiated in 2007 and lasted until 2011, is being hailed as one of the most significant legal developments in recent Turkish history. 

The Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals on April 23 concluded its reasoned decision for the "Ergenekon" coup plot case, which it overturned last week after ruling that the "Ergenekon Terror Organization," the target of the allegations, did not exist at all.

The Turkish Court of Appeals' ruling on April 21 which overturned the convictions in the "Ergenekon" coup plot case marked an era in the country's problematic relations between politics, the military and the judiciary.

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the conviction of a Turkish author over a book he wrote about former President Abdullah Gül constituted a violation of freedom of expression.The court has ordered a retrial, stating that penalization of criticism of politicians would "damage pluralism" in society.

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül has insisted that he was not informed of a visit of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, who was foreign minister at the time, to U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen in 2013.