Life sentences

 Hamdi Firat Buyuk

Balkan Insight

A court in Ankara has handed down verdicts to nearly 500 hundred (sic) people in the so-called Akinci Air Base Case because of their alleged roles in a failed coup attempt in July 2016.

Akinci Air Base in Ankara was the headquarters of the plotters and the operations of the abortive coup attempt were managed there, including air strikes on civilians.

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The court handed multiple life sentences of between 16 and 79 times to pilots, military personnel and civilians who took role in the coup attempt and the air strikes.

The court handed down the maximum punishments available and showed no leniency to the convicted coup plotters.

https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/26/turkey-hands-down-aggravated-life-sentences-for-2016-plotters/

 

 (At the time the coup attempt ended, then-President Barrack Obama said something to the effect that "democracy has spoken in Turkey." That was the community organizer declining to make a decision.)