The Umut Trial including also the murder of journalists Uğur Mumcu and Ahmet Taner Kışlalı back in the 90s, has been continuing with the five defendants and the bomber, sought with red notice, Oğuz Demir, for whom the Constitutional Court requested a retrial. The next trial of five defendants was held on November 8. The trial of Oğuz Demir, stated to be a bomber and sought with red notice, continued on October 31 (8 November).
The Ankara 5th Criminal Court of First Instance ruled that Oğuz Demir, who was confirmed by the court to have planted the bomb in journalist-writer Uğur Mumcu’s car, should be designated as “fugitive”. With this decision, it became possible to prosecute the “fugitive defendant” (December 24).