Prosecutors accused the 365 defendants in the
trial of plotting to depose Erdogan by triggering
turmoil in the country that would have paved the way for a military takeover.
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326 convicted in Turkey military coup plot
http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/101664-326-convicted-in-turkey-military-coup-plot/
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Friday
convicted 326 military officers, including the
former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to
overthrow the nation's Islamic-based government
in 2003, in a case that has helped curtail the military's hold on politics.
A panel of three judges at the court on
Istanbul's outskirts initially sentenced former
air force chief Ibrahim Firtina, former navy
chief Ozden Ornek and former army commander Cetin
Dogan to life imprisonment but later reduced the
sentence to a 20-year jail term because the plot
had been unsuccessful, state-run TRT television
reported. The three were accused of masterminding the plot.
The court also convicted 323 other active or
retired officers, including a former general
elected to Parliament a year ago— of involvement
in the conspiracy, sentencing some to as much as
18 years in prison. Thirty-six were acquitted,
while the case against three other defendants was postponed.
The officers were all expected to appeal the verdicts.
The trial of the high-ranking officers —
inconceivable in Turkey a decade ago — has helped
significantly to tip the balance of power in the
country in favor of civilian authorities.
Turkey's generals have staged three coups since
the 1960s and forced an Islamic government to quit in 1997.
But the current government of Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown ever more
confident with each of its three electoral
successes since 2002, and has been limiting the
powers of the armed forces which have long seen
themselves as the guardians of Turkey's secular traditions.
Erdogan's government has hailed the trial, which
began in December 2010, and other similar ones as
a break with a tradition of impunity and a move toward greater democracy.
However, the officers' case — dubbed
“Sledgehammer” after the alleged conspiracy — has
been marred by the suspects' long confinement
without a verdict and some judicial flaws,
including allegations of fabricated evidence. The
government's secular critics have denounced the
coup plot trials as a ploy to intimidate opponents.
Some defense lawyers have refused to appear in
court for the past five months, saying the
authenticity of some of the evidence was not investigated.
Erdogan said he hoped Friday's verdict was a
“just” one but refused to comment further, saying
he had not seen the reasoning behind the verdicts
and the proceedings against the military officers were not over yet.
“We have to see the appeals phase,” Erdogan said.
“The final dot has not been placed yet. The process is continuing.”
Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim said: “We
all hope that no anti-democratic initiative ever occurs in our country again.”
Prosecutors accused the 365 defendants in the
trial of plotting to depose Erdogan by triggering
turmoil in the country that would have paved the
way for a military takeover. They claimed the
plotters, taking part in an army seminar in 2003,
drew up plans for a coup which included bombings
of mosques, the downing of a Turkish fighter
plane and other acts of violence that would have
allowed the military to intervene on the pretext of restoring order.
The military has said officers taking part in the
seminar discussed a fictitious scenario involving
internal conflict, but that there were no plans for a military coup.
Protests broke out soon after Friday's verdicts
were announced, Hurriyet newspaper reported, with
some of the officers' supporters booing the
decision inside the courthouse and others waving
Turkish flags and shouting “Turkey is secular and will remain secular” outside.
Celal Ulgen, the lawyer defending Dogan — accused
of being the main ringleader — called the court's
decision unjust and unlawful. “Their rights to
defend themselves were violated,” Ulgen told NTV
television. “There is no independent judiciary.”
Dogan said in his final defense statement
Thursday that the trial was a political one
designed to undermine the military. “It is a case
assembled to make soldiers, be they active-duty
or retired soldiers, pay the penance for their
loyalty to the republic and its (secular) principles,” he said.
More than 400 other people — including
journalists, academics, politicians and soldiers
— are also on trial on charges of involvement in
a conspiracy by an alleged gang of secular nationalists called “Ergenekon.”
The former head of the Turkish armed forces, Gen.
Ilker Basbug, and other military officers are,
meanwhile, awaiting trial in a separate case.
Two elderly leaders of Turkey's 1980 military
coup, Kenan Evren and Tahsin Sahinkaya, are being
prosecuted for the military takeover that saw
many cases of torture, disappearance and extrajudicial killings.
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