Süleyman Soylu

Some 739 police personnel who were previously suspended over suspected links to what prosecutors call the Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) have been reinstated to their posts, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 5.

Following investigations, the suspects were not reported to have any links with FETÖ.

Some 301,000 people have died in motorcycle accidents in the last 10 years in Turkey, according to daily Habertürk. 

There are some 3 million registered motorcycles in the country and the number of people killed in the first half of 2017 reached 100, it reported on July 3.

The Constitutional Court on June 28 denied the demand of jailed educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça to be released from prison. The two have been on hunger strike for over 100 days in protest at their dismissal from their posts in state of emergency decrees, and were arrested at the end of May.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has praised the security forces for their "heroism" in carrying out anti-terror operations across Turkey. 

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have been on hunger strike for 90 days for their jobs. The former is an academic and the latter is a teacher. Despite all the statements from the interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, they are not terrorists, and not members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

One person was killed in an anti-terror operation carried out in Istanbul's Kadıköy district early on June 13.
Anti-terror police raided a house at around 12 a.m. in the neighborhood of Acıbadem as part of the operation, igniting a clash between security forces and the suspects.

A total of 1,068 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in the last nine months, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.

A murder weapon that made the headlines on June 8 due to the suspect's allegations that he obtained it from outside the police headquarters in Ankara during July 2016 coup attempt, has been determined to be a MP-5 type machine gun, whose sale is banned in Turkey and is permitted to be used only by security forces, according to an export report prepared by to the General Command of Gendarmerie.<

A murder weapon that made the headlines on June 8 due to the suspect's allegations that he obtained it from outside the police headquarters in Ankara during July coup attempt, has been determined to be a MP-5 type rifle, whose sale is banned in Turkey and is permitted to be used only by security forces, according to an export report prepared by to the General Command of Gendarmerie.

Turkish police have reportedly determined that a ton of drugs seized from a ship in an operation off the Suez Canal belonged to Taliban.