32nd Criminal Court

A former opposition lawmaker has been sentenced to almost two years in prison for allegedly insulting Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, although the court subsequently suspended the sentence.

An Ankara court sentenced five defendants to prison on Jan. 25 in a case regarding the attack targeting Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Ankara on Sept. 8, 2015, but suspended the sentence.

Turkey's top judicial body has dismissed two judges who were arrested for ordering the release of 76 suspects thought to have links to the "Fetullahist Terrorist Organization" (FETÖ), as well as two other judges who released three police officers that were detained on charges of illegal wiretapping.

Five suspects are accused of storming the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Ankara on Sept. 8, with four of them facing between six months and three years in prison. The other suspect accused of setting the building ablaze faces up 24 years in jail.

An Istanbul court on April 30 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.

The 29th Criminal Court of First Instance judge, Metin Özçelik, and the 32nd Criminal Court of First Instance judge, Mustafa Ba?er, were accused of being a member of a terrorist organization.

A local court in the Turkish capital city of Ankara has ruled to release a lawyer who was arrested April 21 for ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during a job interview to become a judge.

Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an slammed the main opposition parties on April 28 over their ?lack of support for the government in the struggle against the parallel state,? the same day as Turkey?s high judiciary board allowed the prosecution against two judges who demanded the release of 76 suspects allegedly working for U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Three judges who ordered the release of 79 suspects charged with alleged links to the "parallel state" of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen were suspended from duty on April 27 for "causing chaos within the judiciary."