Turkey: verdicts upheld for "Sledgehammer plotters"...

2013-10-09 59

Several Turkish military officers have had their convictions upheld for a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in 2003.

In the ruling, the court upheld 20-year prison sentences for chief suspect and former commander of the First Army Cetin Dogan, former air force commander Ibrahim Firtina and retired admiral Ozden Ornek.

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