Istanbul Police Department

A senior executive of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) was taken into custody in Ankara on April 7 before being transferred to Istanbul as part of an ongoing investigation.

Turkey deported a female British national to the U.K. on March 19, after police the woman on suspicion of trying to cross into neighboring Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), according to the Turkish authorities.

The Istanbul Police Department has finally sent the identities of the policemen suspected of shooting dead Gezi protest victim Berkin Elvan, a full year after the 15-year-old passed away following 269 days in a coma.

Elvan was shot with a tear gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters on June 16, 2013, and succumbed to his injuries on March 11, 2014.

A group of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies, under the leadership of CHP deputy chairman Sezgin Tanr?kulu, has applied to the Justice Ministry to visit Hidayet Karaca, the CEO of the Samanyolu Media Group, on Feb. 9.

The family of Elif Sultan Kalsen, who has been announced as a terror attack suspect and a suicide bomber on several occasions, has cried foul, saying they feared for their daughter's safety after "groundless claims."

An Istanbul court has ordered the arrest of four of the 12 suspects, including Samayolu TV's head, who were detained in a Dec. 14 police operation on media groups linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Eight suspects, including Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı, have been released. The court, however, imposed a travel ban on Dumanlı.

Turkish police have launched a media operation to detain 31 people, including media figures and former police chiefs, simultaneously raiding addresses in 13 provinces across the country.

The raid on daily Zaman occurred at 7.15 a.m. local time, as supporters of the newspaper stood guard in front of the office building over rumors that such an operation would take place.

Turkish police raided the offices of a newspaper close to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen on early Dec. 14, the paper's editor said, two days after President Tayyip Erdoğan signalled a fresh campaign against Gülen's supporters.

A 54-year-old man has turned himself in to Istanbul police, confessing that he kept his wife’s body for two years after killing her.

The man, only identified as İ.K., reportedly killed his wife in 2012 in the Thracian province of Kırklareli after suspecting that she had cheated on him.

Four more police officers were arrested in the second wave of a wiretapping probe operation on Aug. 7, while six officers were released pending trial.

The number of arrests is likely to increase as 21 other police officers detained last week are expected to be sent to court. Two other officers are still being sought for interrogation.