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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey sentences 34 to life in jail over Erdogan murder plot |
| 2017-10-05 |
| [DAWN] A ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year's failed coup. The 34 were given four life sentences each at the trial in the southwestern city of Mugla, state-run TRT Haber television said. The group includes former brigadier general Gokhan Sahin Sonmezates who was accused of directing the plot. The trial began on February 20 and is one of many such processes taking place across ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to try those who allegedly plotted the failed bid to oust Erdogan on July 15, 2016. Some verdicts have already been handed out in low profile cases but it is the first ruling involving top plotters. The failed coup left 249 people dead, not including the putschists, and the authorities have vowed no compromise in bringing those involved to justice. Turkey accuses Pennsylvania-based Moslem holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... of orchestrating the attempted coup. Gulen, a former Erdogan ally-turned-foe, strongly denies Ankara's claims. |
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