Turkish Court Jails 74 Officers For Life Over Failed Coup - Reports

Sumaira FH Published November 21, 2018 | 09:45 PM

Turkish Court Jails 74 Officers for Life Over Failed Coup - Reports

ANKARA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st November, 2018) A court in Ankara has sentenced 74 officers to life in prison for their role in the 2016 coup attempt to depose the Turkish president, local media said Wednesday.

A judicial source told the Anadolu news agency that Ankara-based officers from an army corps and a mechanized infantry brigade were convicted of trying to overthrow the constitutional order.

Another 189 suspects face the same charges and will be tried separately, the publication said.

The Turkish government maintains they are part of a network run by cleric Fetullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for the July 2016 military putsch. It killed 251 people and injured thousands others.

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