2nd High Criminal Court

An Ankara regional court has sent a file on jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş back to the Ankara 2nd High Criminal Court on the grounds that it was not prepared in accordance with necessary procedures, Doğan News Agency reported on Aug. 30. 

A case into imprisoned Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has not been processed due to a disagreement between two courts. 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca was released from prison on July 29 after the approval of her appeal against a 2.5-year prison sentence for disseminating terror propaganda.  The 2nd High Criminal Court in the southeastern province of Batman ordered Konca's release considering the five years she remained in custody.

A court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has released a child sexual abuse suspect after 59 days even though the local chief prosecutor's office had sought a jail sentence of between three and eight years for the suspect, Doğan News Agency reported May 31.

A Russian real estate agent operating in Turkey's southern province of Antalya, who was detained for a short period before the G-20 summit in November 2015 on suspicion of being an ISIL militant, is now facing 15 years in prison.

Two former judges who were arrested for ordering the release of 76 suspects charged with alleged links to the ?parallel state? of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen face aggravated life sentences on multiple charges, according to an indictment prepared in the case. 

Four prosecutors and one commander, for whom arrest warrants were issued after their halting of Syria-bound National Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks in Turkey's south last year, have been detained. 

The Tarsus 2nd High Criminal Court ordered the arrest of four prosecutors, along with a commander who ordered the Syria-bound trucks belonging to M?T to be stopped and searched. 

Four prosecutors and a former commander were arrested on May 6 in the investigation into the halting of Syria-bound National Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks in January 2014, which led to a nationwide crisis and a series of detentions against top security personnel. 

An Istanbul court has arrested two judges who ordered the release of 76 suspects charged with alleged links to the ?parallel state? of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

A Diyarbakır court has released 30 of the 32 arrested suspects in the main case against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).