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Turkey sentences ex-generals, higher education chief to 18 years in retrial over 1997 coup - Turkish Minute
An Ankara court on Monday sentenced 13 people, including retired generals, military officers and a former higher education official, to 18 years in prison in a retrial over their role in a 1997 military intervention known as the February 28 “postmodern coup,” the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Following the Supreme Court's reversal decision, the 28 February case was retried at the Ankara 5th High Criminal Court, and 13 defendants were sentenced to 18 years in prison each for "aiding the coup attempt."
Following the Supreme Court of Appeals’ overturning decision, the February 28th case was retried at the Ankara 5th High Criminal Court, and 13 defendants, including retired generals Orhan Yöney and Şükrü Sarıışık, and then-President of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) Prof. Dr. Halil Kemal Gürüz, were each sentenced to 18 years in prison for “aiding the coup attempt.” Following the Supreme Court of Appeals’ overturning decision in the Febru…
The verdict in the February 28 case, which was retried after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the verdict, was: 13 defendants were sentenced to 18 years in prison each for "aiding the coup attempt."
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