Fourth Heavy Penal Court

A suspect in a case into a deadly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) twin suicide bomb attack case has threatened the families of victims during a hearing held in the capital Ankara. 

Metin Akaltın, one of the suspects in the Oct. 10, 2015 ISIL attack case, wagged his finger at the families as a gesture of threat in the third hearing of the case on May 3. 

Two jailed lawmakers from the opposition People's Democratic Party (HDP) were released by the courts in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on April 21. 

HDP Diyarbakır deputy Nursel Aydoğan and Meral Danış Beştaş, another lawmaker from the southern province of Adana, are being tried over terror charges. 

A court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on April 21 released from jail Nursel Aydoğan, a lawmaker from the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

The Diyarbakır Fourth Heavy Penal Court ruled for the release of HDP Diyarbakır deputy Aydoğan on condition of judicial control. 

Turkish journalist Fehmi Koru has said Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT) chief Hakan Fidan visited the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen in Pennsylvania twice. 

Koru, in his testimony as witness in the main case into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) held at the Ankara Fourth Heavy Penal Court, said a high number of politicians visited Gülen.

The grant holder of shuttered daily Zaman, which was closed down by the Turkish state in May 2016 over its links to the movement of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, has said he wants to benefit from the effective remorse law, in the main case into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). 

An Ankara court has arrested the wife of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber in the hearing of the case into the jihadist organization's twin bomb attack in the Turkish capital on Oct. 10, 2015, which killed over 100 people and wounded many others. 

A lawyer has resigned from defending U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is believed to have orchestrated the July 15 failed coup attempt, saying that he and the people around him suffered from the movement's actions. 

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants sought people to recruit to the organization in the villages around the Turkish capital of Ankara, according to an informatory note sent by police to the Ankara Fourth Heavy Penal Court. The militants also looked for someone to join the jihadists in order to make heavy weapons, such as mortar shells, according to the note.