The public prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who conducted the investigation of the Berkin Elvan case, was taken hostage by the members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C).

Members of the organization gave a list of requests to the police while threatening to kill the prosecutor.

Berkin Elvan was seriously injured when hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer on the morning of 16 June 2013 during the Gezi Park protests.

It was written in the report that Berkin Elvan was injured as a result of a hard object hitting his head and died while he was being treated at the hospital.

[6] In another report sent by the National Criminal Bureau, it was stated that there could be 3 suspect police officers based on the result of the photo examinations.

[21] As part of the division of labor organized by the Chief Public Prosecutor of Istanbul, he was given charge of the Office of Investigations.

There was a blockage in the talks when the militants asked for the police officers responsible for the murder of Berkin Elvan to be brought there.

According to the forensic report of Florence Nightingale Hospital, a total of 10 bullet wounds, 3 of which were in the head, 6 in the chest and 1 in the leg region, were detected.

[28] On 2 April 2015, the General Directorate of Security announced that the bullets that killed Mehmet Selim Kiraz came out of the gun used by the militants not the police.

[32] It was reported in the press that Erdal Ünal, nicknamed Zeki, was caught in Italy about 1 week after the incident, as it was determined that had given orders for the prosecutor's death from abroad as an instigator.

The cause of death in the report is specified as "Internal bleeding due to brain hemorrhage, brain tissue damage, and visceral injury with a skull, rib and scapula bone (scapula) fracture caused by firearm bullets."

[25][30] The chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party Devlet Bahçeli reacted to the news by saying "Those who organize insulting sessions to Berkin Elvan and inflame polarization should pay the price of innocent lives that disappear.

"[36] Leader of the Republican People's Party Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu also reacted to the incident and said "I would like to ask the government and the intelligence about the prosecutor being taken hostage in front of their eyes; How was it possible to enter the courthouse with tools such as flag, streamer, gun, and plastic clamp?

If a country's National Intelligence Service is dealing with things out of the scope of its job, then everyone can easily enter the office of a prosecutor.

"[37] Journalist Mirgün Cabas said on Twitter, "No matter how this situation ends, there is only one lesson to be learned: do not shoot the children, do not catcall at their mothers.

[40][41][42] Esat Berberoğlu, uncle of the attacker, commented on these reactions and said, "He was a child studying in the law school.