Indictment

Three Turkish newspapers, including daily Hürriyet, are set to stand trial on charges of making propaganda for a terrorist organization for publishing a photo from a recent hostage crisis in Istanbul.

Zagreb County Court on Friday threw out an indictment filed by the Croatian Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime, USKOK, against Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has become involved as a plaintiff in a case filed against a woman who allegedly ?insulted the Quran? by posting a photo on Twitter showing her foot standing on the Muslim holy book.

The defendant faces up to four years in prison. 

Two prosecutors and a judge who initiated Turkey's biggest corruption investigation will be tried in the Supreme Court of Appeals as an Istanbul court decided on June 15 to send their indictments to the top court.

The shopkeeper who stabbed journalist Nuh Köklü to death after a snowball reportedly hit his shop's window during a snowball fight involving the journalist and his friends has been given an indictment of life in prison as the investigation into the murder, which involved two suspects and 13 complainants, has been completed.

The Bak?rköy 16th Court of Serious crimes has accepted an indictment against prosecutors Celal Kara and Muammer Akka?, who oversaw two massive corruption probes, on charges of ?malpractice,? along with an indictment of ?negligence? against judge Süleyman Karaçöl, who presided over one of the probe cases.

A local court in the Turkish capital city of Ankara has ruled to release a lawyer who was arrested April 21 for ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during a job interview to become a judge.

A closely watched trial against more than a dozen ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) members - including its leader and several serving MPs - begins on Monday.

An Istanbul Public Prosecutor Office has prepared an indictment for Celal Kara, one of the prosecutors involved in the quashed graft investigations of December 2013, demanding that he be sentenced up to three years on misconduct charges.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor?s Office has finalized the draft of an indictment arguing it has found ?concrete evidence? that sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen were trying to form a ?cemaat state? parallel to the state of the Republic of Turkey. It has also charged seven people for leaking information and documents to criminal organizations.