[3] The court room had to be adapted to the requirements for the case which demanded an extensive amount of fifteen additional special compartments for the talks between lawyers and defendants.
Additionally the trial demanded that court files like the declarations of witnesses, lawyers and judges were to be translated into the languages Turkish, Kurdish and German.
[4] According to the German Der Spiegel until July 1989, there have been organized over 130 manifestations in support of the defendants[4] which had at times entered into a hunger strike.
He approached the authorities of Nord Rhein-Wesphfalia already in spring 1989, mentioning that a large trial was In preparation which seemed to exceed the currently available abilities of the state.
[9] The Public Prosecutor General (German: Generalbundesanwalt) Kurt Rebmann called it he largest Terrorism-Trial in history.
[10] The prosecution intended to provide evidence that the defendants were part of a terrorist organization within the PKK, which was responsible for several murders in Germany.
[13][4] The prosecution relied mainly on the declarations of crown witness Ali Centiner, who was charged with the murder of Murat Bayrakli.
[10] The case accounted also for the first attempt by the prosecution to incriminate a lawyer of the defense for an event that occurred during a hearing in the court room.