Turkey: a prosecutor held hostage by gunmen in Istanbul court

Gunmen took hostage Tuesday in an Istanbul court the prosecutor in charge of an investigation after the death of a young man wounded by police during anti-government protests in 2013, media reports said.

Gunshots were heard during the hostage, held in Caglayan courthouse, on the European side of Istanbul, clarified certain media.

The Turkish press has awarded the operation of clandestine Marxist group party / Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of the People (DHKP C), known to have carried out numerous attacks in Turkey since the 1990s.

Pictures of unknown origin have been published on the social networks and show the prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, sitting in a chair and a gun pointed to his head by a man whose face is not on the plate, while a Another man has the objective Magistrate's identity card.

Major police personnel were deployed around the court, according to media reports.

According to Turkish media quoted a statement posted on a website near DHKP -C, the commando threatened to kill the hostage by 24:35 GMT when the police officers responsible for the death of the young man did not by then "public confession".

The prosecutor Kiraz was to investigate the circumstances of the death of Berkin Elvan, who died March 11, 2014 after 269 days from a coma caused by a tear gas canister shot by the police in Istanbul during a demonstration in June 2013.

The announcement of the death of the 15 year old had spontaneously take to the streets of all major cities in Turkey hundreds of thousands of people.

Many demonstrators still commemorated his death on March 11.

For Berkin Elvan has become a symbol of the violent repression by the government in 2013 and that of the authoritarian drift that accuse him detractors. Erdogan had publicly called a "terrorist".