Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office

A prosecutor in Ankara has issued an arrest warrant for Sedat Peker, a fugitive criminal network leader who has been targeting Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu by making accusations and extraordinary claims against him from the United Arab Emirates.

A total of 14 detained admirals who were taken into custody due to their declaration in support of the Montreux Convention were released on April 12 on the condition of judicial control.

Initially, 13 admirals were released on condition of intercity and international travel ban on April. 12.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation against Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Deputy Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir on charges of being a member of an armed terrorist organization after Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu claimed that she visited northern Iraq's Gara region where 13 Turks were killed.

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has once again renewed its calls for the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), with MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli saying his party does not favor the closure of political parties, but parties involved in "acts of violence" should be punished.

As academic ghostwriting 'industry' continues its unavoidable growth in Turkey, the country's Higher Education Council (YÖK) filed a criminal complaint to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office about the suspects who prepared academic thesis and essays in exchange of money.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation against Republican People's Party (CHP) former lawmaker Fikri Sağlar for "inciting the public to enmity and hatred" over his remarks on the issue of the headscarf.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation ex officio for the Turkish-flagged commercial ship named Roseline-A which was stopped and searched in the eastern Mediterranean Sea by the EU's military mission Irini.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has dropped charges against police officers who used physical force on a group of women who performed the "Las Tesis" dance last year to draw attention to growing femicide in Turkey.

The prosecutors said "no crime or element of crime" had been found in their decision.

An Ankara court has ruled for the arrest of Müyesser Yıldız, a news editor of  Oda TV, an online news portal on accusations that she revealed state secrets in her two articles.
She was detained on June 8 in over "political and military espionage" as part of a probe launched by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and was arrested early on June 12.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday evening that he supports Ali Erbas, the head of Directorate of Religious Affairs, Diyanet, over his statements condemning homosexuality.

Erdogan also slammed the Ankara Bar Association, a lawyers' group, for accusing Erbas of inciting hatred.