{"id":644211,"date":"2019-05-30T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/08101210-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Recep Tayyip Erdogan\" title=\"Recep Tayyip Erdogan\"\/><\/div><p>A court in Ankara on Thursday "},"modified":"2019-05-30T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:37:58","slug":"turkey-coup-74-people-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/30\/turkey-coup-74-people-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey coup: 74 people sentenced to life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/08101210-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Recep Tayyip Erdogan\" title=\"Recep Tayyip Erdogan\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A court in Ankara on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment 74 suspects, including former helicopter pilots, over their alleged role in the failed 2016 coup by a faction in the military.<\/p>\n<p>The court case was brought against 152 people allegedly involved in the coup attempt on the night of July 15, 2016, according to state news agency Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the pilots are accused of having carried out helicopter attacks on the presidential palace, the parliament and the police headquarters in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the coup attempt was executed outside the chain of command.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charges Hulusi Akar, then-military chief-of-staff, was taken hostage and brought to the former presidential palace in Cankaya district during the coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot Ugur Kapan, who is accused of taking Akar, now Turkish defence minister, to Cankaya, was handed 29 aggravated life sentences, in which tougher jail conditions are imposed.<\/p>\n<p>He separately received 3,932 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The court handed 45 people sentences up to 18 years in prison, while 31 were acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>Two are still being tried.<\/p>\n<p>The government blames U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating the abortive putsch, which left over 250 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30,000 people are in jail in Turkey, accused of having links to Gulen, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in April.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Ankara on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment 74 suspects, including former helicopter pilots, over their alleged role in the failed 2016 coup by a faction in the military. 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