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Police operations were carried out in Bakırköy, Gaziosmanpaşa ve İstanbul Courthouses this morning (August 15) in İstanbul.
Attorneys reported that the entrances and exits to the courthouses were closed and police conducted searches in the offices of the court personnel.
State-run Anadolu Agency reported that as a part of the investigation into court personnel, carried out by İstanbul Public Chief Officer, Gökalp Kökçü, detention orders had been issued for 173 staff members.
The court personnel taken into custody within the operation launched at 8.30 a.m. this morning (August 15) have been taken to İstanbul Security Directorate for deposition. Also the computers in the court rooms were taken in for examination.
As a part of the same investigation, four other court personnel had been taken into custody last week in İstanbul.
126 detentions in Ankara
Last week, operations were also conducted at courthouses in Ankara on August 8.
As a part of the investigation carried out by Ankara Security Directorate Public Security Department into the coup attempt on July 15, 126 court personnel were detained who were in service of Ankara Justice Palace; Gölbaşı, Polatlı, Bala, Çubuk and Kalecik Courthouses; the additional building in Balgat where labour and commercial courts are located; the additional building in Yenimahalle holding the forced execution office and the enforcement court as well as the Ankara Regional Administrative Court.
648 judges and prosecutors
Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ in his statement last week, said that there were 16,000 persons detained and approximately 6,000 others in custody whose procedures are still in progress and added “there are around 7,668 probation orders”.
In operations against judges and prosecutors, 648 have been detained. (AS/DG)
