Sledgehammer

The main investigation into the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt, widely believed to have been masterminded by the network of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, has been completed.

Four men with covered faces attacked an Athens city bus in the early hours of Thursday, using sledgehammers to smash through the door.

The assailants stopped the bus mid-route on the corner of Galatsiou Avenue and Drsospoulou in Galatsi near downtown Athens at around 5.40 a.m. and started beating down the front door.

Neither the driver nor any of the passengers were injured.

Turkish prosecutors on Jan. 21 issued arrest warrants for more than 400 people, including soldiers and security officers, across the country following the July 2016 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Police on Jan. 19 apprehended 95 personnel of the Turkish Armed Forces who were among suspects issued with arrest warrants as a part of the investigation into to the failed July 2016 coup attempt, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Police on the weekend were trying to identify a group of around 10 assailants who vandalized the KAT station of the ISAP electric railway on Friday night.

Police in Istanbul detained 35 people on Dec. 10 as part of a probe into the July 15 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has quoted Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, in his response to critics over his honoring of controversial journalists, saying he would defend the rights of imprisoned journalists even though he disagreed with their opinions. 

The first trials of the thousands of suspects arrested in the wake of Turkey's failed July 15 coup attempt will begin in early 2017, the chief Ankara prosecutor said on Nov. 3.

Former chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner has said the reason behind his 2011 resignation was to avoid pressure from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to make him appoint and retire army officers who were, at the time, suspected of planning to overthrow the government. 

Former chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner has said the reason behind his 2011 resignation was to avoid pressure from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to make him appoint and retire army officers who were, at the time, suspected of planning to overthrow the government.