The Istanbul Justice Palace ( tr, İstanbul Adalet Sarayı) is a
courthouse in the
Şişli
Şişli () is one of the 39 districts of Istanbul, Turkey. Located on the European side of the city, it is bordered by Beşiktaş to the east, Sarıyer to the north, Eyüp and Kağıthane to the west, and Beyoğlu to the south. In 2009, Şiş ...
district of
Istanbul
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, area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side)
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Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. Inaugurated in July 2011, it is the largest courthouse in Europe, with an area of over . It was built by the VARYAP construction subsidiary of the Varlıbaş Group.
Incident
On 31 March 2015, 2 suspected members of the
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) took prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage on the sixth floor of the Justice Palace. They demanded that the police announce the names of four members of the security services who they said were connected to the death of
Berkin Elvan
Berkin Elvan (5 January 1999 – 11 March 2014) was a 15-year-old boy who was hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer in Istanbul during the June 2013 2013 protests in Turkey, anti-government protests in Turkey. He died o ...
. The police negotiated with the gunmen for six hours, but eventually stormed the courthouse "because of gunshots heard from inside the prosecutor's office". The two gunmen died during the operation, while the prosecutor was badly wounded and later died of his injuries.
Bloody end to Turkey prosecutor hostage crisis
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References
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Buildings and structures in Istanbul
Courthouses in Turkey
2011 establishments in Turkey
Şişli
Government buildings completed in 2011
Palaces