[ April 26, 2024 ]
A court in Turkey sentenced 104 people to life in prison for their ties to the failed military coup in 2016.
Apparently, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is rooting out anyone he perceives as a threat and locking them away.
He denounced the coup back in July of 2016.
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And now, he’s getting his revenge, bringing charges against anyone seen as involved.
From the Jerusalem Post:
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced 104 people to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in 2016, the Hurriyet newspaper said, in one of the heaviest penalties given since the attempt.
The court in the Aegean coastal town of Izmir handed 104 of 280 defendants “aggravated life” sentences, Hurriyet said, the harshest punishment possible under Turkish law as it raises the minimum time in jail required for parole.
Another 21 people were given 20 years in prison for insulting the president, while 31 others were sentenced to 10 years and six months for “membership of a terrorist organization,” Hurriyet said.
More than 240 people, most of them unarmed civilians, were killed on the night of July 15, 2016, when a group of rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and warplanes in an attempt to attack parliament and overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan.
The government blames the network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan, for orchestrating the failed coup. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has denied involvement and condemned the putsch.
Since the coup attempt, authorities have detained 160,000 people and dismissed nearly the same number of civil servants as part of a sweeping crackdown, the UN human rights office said in March. Of that number, more than 50,000 have been formally charged and kept in jail pending trial.
The scale of the crackdown has alarmed rights groups and Turkey’s Western allies, who fear the country is sliding further into authoritarianism under Erdogan and accuse the president of using the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent.
The government, however, says the measures are necessary, given the extent of the security threats it faces.
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10 Comments
5 years ago
I believe, for those from the West, this is the most difficult to grasp, “Another 21 people were given 20 years in prison for insulting the president …”
A twenty year sentence for insulting a boar hog?
5 years ago
I am surprised they weren’t quietly executed. What a pity they were not better organized. Erdogan is a hardliner. He is rewriting their Constitution to be Sharia Law complaint.
5 years ago
The new Sultan’s tyranny knows no bounds in his false democracy. He should remember how the Ottomans lost their empire…
5 years ago
I hereby insult the dictator and mass murderer: he spends a lot of time hanging around public lavatories at night and playing with the poor goats. He wants the Ottoman empire resurrected and the former colonies: Greece, Bulgaria etc to be under his rule. We have one advantage: Persians (mainly Shia) and Arabs (mainly Sunni) and Turks (mainly Sunni) detest each other. The greatest insult to a Persian is to classify them as Arab or Turkish. In Iran, the Sunni minority is persecuted. We should stir up trouble between them and let them wipe each other out.
D
5 years ago
Erdogan had wanted the Constitution rewritten before any sentences were passed out as he wanted any of the so called “terrorists” executed. Plainly the rate at which Erdogan is becoming the Turkish leader for life he will appeal the sentences at some later date and have these people executed.
If you read the current Turkish Constitution you will discover that Erdogan is in breach of the Constitution and is openly declaring Turkey to be returning to being an Islamic Theocracy – which is specifically forbidden in the Constitution and under the same Constitution the Turkish military is remove any leader such as Erdogan.
5 years ago
they have coup attempts every 20 yrs. or so. Thas why Erdogan is going sharia. Musm are required to attempt just for change.
5 years ago
Erdogan is following in Adolf’s footsteps.
5 years ago
This is what Trump needs to do to the entire Obama administration and some rino’s as well.
D
5 years ago
We can thank George W. Bush for this because he was the one who discouraged the Turkish army from doing their job. As the guarantor of the secular republic they were supposed to stage a coup to prevent Erdopig from gaining power. Bush insisted that the “democratic will of the people” should be respected and we now have what was predicted then.
5 years ago
Most of the muslums convicted of conspiring to blow up two synagogues in Turkey, on the same day in 2003, killing 24 people were sentenced to SIX years. I believe ALL of them have already been released from Turkish prisons.
