Turkey: ‘Sentenced to life in Silivri’
6 August 2013
A court in Silivri, close to Istanbul, has sentenced 19 people, including a former chief of general staff Mehmet İlker Başbuğ and journalist Tuncay Özkan, to life in prison for their role in the Ergenekon affair — which, according to Turkish authorities, was a nationalist plot in the 2000s that aimed to overthrow Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamic-conservative government through a series of bomb attacks and propaganda operations.
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