"TURKEY: IRAN IMPLICATED IN MURDER OF TURKISH INTELLECTUALS
Ankara, 19 Dec. (AKI) - An Ankara court has accused the Iranian government of supporting Islamic extremists in Turkey in plotting the murder of several secular Turkish intellectuals includng a well-known liberal journalist and three university professors. The main suspect in the case Farhan Osman was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment while the court handed out sentences ranging from 9 to 15 years to the other 11 defendants.
'The Islamic Republic in its efforts to export the ideology on which it is founded, has contributed decisively to the birth of small extremist Islamic Turkish groups that planned and carried out the attacks against the secular intellectuals,' section 11 of the Ankara tribunal said in its ruling. "
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