Emre Uslu

Some 17 suspects, including jailed journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, will appear before an Istanbul court on June 19 for the first time in a case into the media leg of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which is widely believed to have perpetrated the July 15, 2016, failed coup. 

A prosecutor has sought three aggravated life sentences each for journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan in a case into the media leg of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which widely believed to have been behind the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt. 

Pro-government Turkish daily Ak?am has been sentenced to pay 6,000 Turkish Liras in compensation to former Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Umut Oran for publishing a manufactured story alleging an assassination plot against President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's daughter, Sümeyye Erdo?an, which they had claimed involved Oran, daily Cumhuriyet reported on April 20.

The Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled for combining a case regarding Syria-bound Turkish Central Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks, and the case of "Selam Tevhid," a terror group the government alleges to have been formed to justify the massive wiretapping scandal, with U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as its main suspect. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's security guards tussled with several journalists covering his speech at the Brookings Institution on March 31 in Washington, where he was to attend a nuclear security summit.

At least 14 people have been detained in 11 Turkish provinces as part of an investigation into the alleged mass wiretapping of hundreds of lawmakers and civil servants.

An Istanbul court has ordered the release of 10 of 45 suspects in a case into the alleged wiretapping of hundreds of lawmakers and civil servants and the creation of a fake terrorist group publicly known as "Selam Tevhid."

The first court hearing was held in Istanbul on Feb. 1 in a case into the alleged creation of a terrorist organization, with U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as one of the main defendants, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  

An Istanbul court has accepted an indictment against 122 suspects, including U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, former police chief Yurt Atayün and Emre Uslu, within the investigation into misconduct in a past probe, which led to various surveillance activities against hundreds of leading lawmakers, academics and journalists.

An indictment against 122 suspects, including U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as one of the prime suspects, has been prepared in an investigation into the alleged creation of a fake terrorist group called Selam Tevhid, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Oct 26.