Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office

Turkey's intel agency tries to determine IDs of 30,000 ByLock users

Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT) is attempting to determine the identities of some 30,000 users of the smartphone application ByLock, which came to prominence after it emerged that followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen used the program. 

According to MİT, a total of 230,000 ByLock accounts have been found, of which 15,000 are duplicates. 

Prosecutors reveal junta behind Turkey's coup attempt

The joint indictment submitted to an Ankara court on March 3 on the July 2016 coup attempt has identified a 38-member junta named "Peace in the Nation Council" as being among 221 suspected coup plotters led by Fethullah Gülen, head of what the government and the indictment refer to as the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ). 

Turkish General Staff refutes 'drill' claims of coup plotting soldiers

The Turkish General Staff has refuted claims that suspects of the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt were "participating in a drill," in a report sent to chief public prosecutor's offices in 81 provinces, saying that the events that unfolded on the night of the thwarted coup were deliberate, daily Habertürk reported on March 2.

Turkey's intel agency sends list of 122,000 ByLock users to prosecutor's office

Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT) has sent a list of a total of 122,000 alleged users of the ByLock smartphone app, which came to prominence after it emerged that members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) used it to communicate, to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office. 

Turkish police tracing Russian envoy killer's movements on Internet

The assassin of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, repeatedly studied his target's photo on the Internet, according to the police investigation into the Dec. 19 killing. 

Altıntaş, who killed Karlov during a photo exhibition in Ankara's Center of Modern Art, looked at the pictures from his housemate's computer, daily Habertürk reported on Jan. 3.  

Detention warrants issued for 70 police officers over coup attempt

Detention warrants have been issued against a total of 70 police officers over their suspected links to the Fethullahist Gülenist Organization (FETÖ), which is widely believed to have masterminded the failed July 15 coup.

Police officers who were removed from their posts with state of emergency decrees were among those who were subjected to warrants.

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