5th Penal Court

Low numbers of police failed to stop attackers, officers tell court in Hürriyet attack case

Police officers in the case into an attack on daily Hürriyet and Hürriyet Daily News' building in Istanbul's Bağcılar in 2015 testified as witnesses in court on May 25, noting that the small size of the force was unable to stop the approximately 200 assailants who raided the building.

Former police intel chief arrested in Dink murder case

A former Istanbul police intelligence chief was arrested late May 28 in the case of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Ali Fuat Y?lmazer, who was the Istanbul police intelligence chief when Dink was murdered in 2007, was arrested after being interrogated for a second time in the killing of Dink.