The Courtroom of Cassation has upheld the 138-times aggravated life sentences given to 17 defendants, together with former Basic Basic Akın Öztürk, within the Basic Workers umbrella case concerning the FETÖ coup try. Among the many defendants is former Air Forces Commander Akın Öztürk.The Courtroom of Cassation third Penal Chamber has dominated to uphold the 138-times aggravated life sentences given to 17 defendants, together with former Basic Akın Öztürk, within the Basic Workers umbrella case concerning the Fetullahist Terrorist Group’s (FETÖ) July 15 coup try.
The third Felony Chamber of the Supreme Courtroom of Appeals has accomplished its attraction evaluate of the decision given by the Ankara seventeenth Excessive Felony Courtroom on June 20, 2019.
138 AGGRAVATED LIFE SENTENCES FOR 17 DEFENDANTS
Accordingly, the aggravated life sentences given to the defendants, who’re proven as members of the so-called peace at house council and are thought-about the “managers” and “principal perpetrators” of the coup try, specifically former Air Forces Commander and Supreme Army Council (YAŞ) member former Basic Akın Öztürk, former main generals Kubilay Selçuk, Mehmet Dişli, former brigadier generals Hakan Evrim, Erhan Caha, Mehmet Partigöç, Ali Osman Gürcan, former rear admirals Ömer Faruk Harmancık and Sinan Sürer, former colonels Bilal Akyüz, Cemil Turhan, Fırat Alakuş, Ahmet Özçetin, Murat Koçyiğit, Orhan Yıkılkan, Osman Kılıç and Muhsin Kutsi Barış, have been upheld for one sentence every for “violating the structure” and “assassinating the president”, and 136 occasions for a complete of 138 occasions for the crime of “deliberate killing” of 136 individuals.
PUNISHMENT RAINED DOWN ON THE DEFENDANTS
It was additionally determined to uphold the 416-year jail sentences given to those defendants for 26 counts of “tried premeditated homicide.” It was additionally determined to overturn the sentence for former colonel Mustafa Barış Avıalan, who was sentenced to the identical sentences as these defendants and who died after the native court docket’s verdict was introduced. The jail sentences given to those defendants by the native court docket on the cost of “premeditated homicide” for the three victims have been overturned, stating {that a} trial needs to be held on the idea of “doable premeditated homicide.”
