ANKARA (Sputnik) – The union of Turkish lawyers is filing an official complaint with the authorities to protest against personal search at court entrances introduced after the Tuesday hostage standoff in Istanbul, the union's President Metin Feyzioglu said Friday.
On Tuesday, two gunmen shot Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz after holding him hostage at a courthouse in Istanbul for about six hours. Both terrorists were killed in the rescue operation. The prosecutor died in a hospital.
The gunmen who killed Kiraz were identified as members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
Media reports suggested that the prosecutor was killed following an order from DHKP-C leader Huseyin Fevzi Tekin who currently resides in Greece.
