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The incident, on the city's historic Sultanahmet square, killed 12 German tourists and maimed 16 other people.
The jacket wallah was Turkman-Syrian Nabil Fadli, 28, who had crossed into Turkey to request asylum just a month before he mingled in a crowd of tourists with malicious intent.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...'s government blamed the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
for the incident, but the group has never grabbed credit.
...suggesting it was some other jihadi group based in Syria, which then, as now, was an endless list...
FOUR SUSPECTS RECEIVE LIFE SENTENCESThe four suspects, already in jail, received aggravated life sentences. The Istanbul court that handed out the sentences ruled that the attack represented "an attempt to
Aggravated life sentences are the most severe prison terms possible in Turkey since it abolished the death penalty
in 2002; there is no chance for parole.Additionally, each was also sentenced to 328 years for aiding deliberate murder with terrorist intent, among other charges, according to state news agency Anadolu.
A LONG-RUNNING COURT CASE
Tuesday's sentences are final after an appeals court overturned a 2018 verdict against a total of 26 suspects.
One further suspect was sentenced to over six years in jail for membership in a terrorist organization.
The court acquitted 18 further suspects, citing lack of evidence.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
a trial in absentia will continue against three suspects who are runaways, Anadolu said.
In 2018,
The court did not state the nationality of those handed the sentences on Tuesday.
Turkey witnessed several attacks in 2016 blamed either on Islamic State or Kurdish murderous Moslems.