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Istanbul?s chief public prosecutor denied April 4 media reports that cited a medical examination showing that 10 bullets hit Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz during a hostage situation on March 31 in which both he and his two captors died.
         

After police witnesses took back their accusations against the Be?ikta? football fan group Çar??, an Istanbul court adjourned the April 2 hearing of a case in which 35 members of Çar?? are on trial for organizing a plot against the government during the 2013 Gezi Park protests. 

We call "terrorists" those people who take up arms and commit acts of terror.
If terrorists render it much more difficult to shout out loud for democratic rights with their actions...
If they serve the dominant power by making it show its teeth more aggressively...
If their actions lead to renewed attacks on the memory of a 14-year-old child...

Istanbul prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who was killed in an operation against his two captors late on March 31, had made considerable progress in the cases of protesters wounded and killed during the Gezi Park protests in the summer of 2013.

The mother of Abdullah Cömert, who was killed during the Gezi protests of 2013 after being hit on the head with a tear gas canister in the southern city of Antakya, had to be rushed to hospital during the trial of her late son on April 1.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu imposed a temporary media ban on the coverage of the ongoing crisis in Istanbul, where a prosecutor had been taken hostage earlier on Tuesday.

Armed men, claiming to be from the banned leftist group DHKP-C, seized public prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in a courthouse in Istanbul.

Suspected members of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have taken prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at Istanbul courthouse in connection to the case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan.

Gunshots have been heard at the building.

Mehmet Selim Kiraz, a public prosecutor leading the probe into the death of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan, has been taken hostage by members of the The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C) in an Istanbul courthouse.

Shocking images have been circulating on the Internet over the last hour, showing a man holding a gun to the head of Kiraz.

The father of Gezi protester Mehmet Ayval?ta?, who died in 2013, was beaten by security forces near an Istanbul courthouse during a scuffle ahead of the sixth hearing into his son's death on March 25.

Five managers of workers? unions and chambers have been acquitted of charges of inciting the public to take part in illegal meetings and marches for the occasion of International Workers? Day in 2014.