More than 1,600 of these convicts have been sentenced to “increased life imprisonment”, which has been the highest sentence since 2002, when Turkey abolished the death penalty, and does not provide for pardon.
A total of 4,890 people have been sentenced to prison in 289 cases, but only one case is currently pending.
Judgments in 87 cases have already been upheld by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeal, which means that the judgments in these cases are already final.
On the night of July 15, 2016, the army tried to overthrow President Regiment Tajip Erdogan, but the coup was suppressed. More than 250 people were killed and more than 2,000 were injured in coup clashes with forces loyal to the Islamist government.
The Ankara coup is blamed on Fetull Gilen, an Islamic preacher in exile in the United States and former Erdogan’s accomplice, whose movement has been declared a terrorist organization.
Gilens categorically denies these allegations.
At the same time, the authoritarian Erdogan regime has used coups as an excuse to completely silence any opposition and independent media.
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