Uğur Sağındık was arrested on 27 April 2018 as part of an investigation launched by the Antalya Public Prosecutor’s Office on grounds of a complaint. Sağındık is indicted for “membership in a terrorist organization” and “propagandasing for a terrorist organization”.
In its interim ruling at the end of the hearing, the 26th High Criminal Court of Istanbul ruled to release Sağındık from pre-trial detention but placed him on house arrest and adjourned the trial in 5 September 2017.