[1] Inaugurated in July 2011, it is the largest courthouse in Europe,[2] with an area of over 300,000 m2 (3,200,000 sq ft).

[5] 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.

The police negotiated with the gunmen for six hours, but eventually stormed the courthouse "because of gunshots heard from inside the prosecutor's office".

[6] On 6 February 2024, 2 suspected members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C)[7] carried out an armed attack occurred on a police station near the palace.