the minister of the interior Beşir Atalay. On 12 September 2009, many newspapers reported on the allegations about Garipoğlu's possible arrest in Armenia, though these claims turned out to be unfounded. The investigation process was also followed by the "TBMM Human Rights Investigation Commission". According to the report submitted to the commission, police carried out operations at 106 addresses in 16 provinces to arrest the suspect. On 17 September 2009, 197 days after the murder, Cem Garipoğlu was arrested in Istanbul. Legal process After the investigation was completed in November 2009, it was decided that Cem Garipoğlu be tried together with his father under one case, and the trial for the two merged cases started on 26 February 2010. In the case, Münevver Karabulut's mother, father and brother were the complainants, and 7 suspects were tried: Cem Garipoğlu and his father Nida Garipoğlu who were on trial for committing the crime, Cem's mother Makbule Garipoğlu who faced allegations that she had "destroyed the evidence of crime", Cem Garipoğlu's uncle Hayyam Garipoğlu who was suspected of hiding Cem, and finally Habib Kurt, Mehmet Karakayalı, and Ahmet Batur who were alleged to have helped with protecting Cem. After the incident, Garipoğlu's father Nida Garipoğlu had been arrested on charges of helping the murderer, but was eventually released on the grounds that there was enough evidence which proved he had an alibi for the time the crime was being committed. Later on 27 April 2009, Cem Garipoğlu's parents were arrested and his father was detained per curiam. He was released 2 days later at the second hearing of the case. In their lawsuit, Münevver Karabulut's mother, father and brother demanded a 2 million compensation from Cem Garipoğlu's family. On 16 April 2011, Karabulut family challenged the verdict of a case, in which Hayyam Gariboğlu had been acquitted of fraudulent bankruptcy 16 years ago. Chief judge Mevlüt Bayraktaroğlu's request to withdraw from the case was accepted by the upper court. Verdict On the 18 November 2011, Cem Garipoğlu was sentenced to 24 years in prison. His mother and uncle were each sentenced to 3 years in prison, while his father was acquitted. In another lawsuit for negligence in the work of the forensic medicine institution and three forensic officers, two doctors and one autopsy technician, were tried. The autopsy technician was sentenced to 5 months imprisonment for neglecting in his duties while doctors were