Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office

Something very serious has been happening in Turkey, prompting many of us to question whether our property rights are still under protection. This "simple" question has dramatic ramifications with regard to the country's economic future, as well as its democracy. 

Police officers forcefully entered the Koza ?pek Holding headquarters in Ankara on Oct. 27 after a court ordered appointment of a trustee panel to the holding.

An Ankara court made the ruling Oct. 26 upon the request of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office days before the repeat general elections on Nov. 1. 

The Turkish government has hired an international law firm to investigate the worldwide activities of the government's friend-turned-foe U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen's Hizmet (Service) Movement. 

The appointment of a trustee panel for Koza ?pek, a corporation linked to the Islamic Scholar Fethullah Gülen, ahead of the general elections on Nov. 1 has created an uproar across Turkey amid scuffles between the police and supporters of the firm in the company's building on Oct. 27.

It has been decided a trustee panel will be appointed to replace the current board of directors of Koza ?pek, a corporation linked to the government's ally-turned-nemesis, U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, upon the request of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Oct. 26.

The original target of the two suicide bombers who attacked a peace rally in Ankara on Oct. 10 was the headquarters of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Police have detained two suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who allegedly predicted on social media that a terrorist attack would take place in Ankara before the Oct. 10 double-suicide bombings in the capital that killed at least 97 people.

Turkish security forces have found an identity card suspected to have belonged to one of the suicide bomb attackers in the Oct. 10 double suicide bombings in Ankara that killed at least 97 people.

Five police officers face from one to three years in prison each for cuffing a young boy under the age 18, who protested Turkey's top higher education body in Ankara with others in March this year.

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.