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Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Turkish leftist demonstrators hold pictures of people who were executed or died in jail during the military rule that followed the 1980 coup in Turkey, in front of a courthouse in Ankara. A Turkish court meted out life sentences to two surviving members of the junta: Coup leader Kenan Evren and then-commander of the Air Force, Tahsin Şahinkaya. AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Prosecutor Erdinç Hakan Özdabakoğlu introduced his final opinion regarding the case before the decision, demanding Evren and Şahinkaya be sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment on charges related to Article 146 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which covers criminal attempts to change all or part of the Turkish Constitution. AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Turkish leftist demonstrators hold a banner reading: 'We don't forgive we don't forget September 12' and hold pictures of people who were executed or died in jail during the military rule that followed the 1980 coup in Turkey. Fifty people were executed, an estimated half a million arrested, hundreds died in prison and many more disappeared during the three years of military rule following the Sept. 12, 1980 coup, Turkey’s third in 20 years. AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
The 1980 coup leaders argued they were forced to intervene to restore order after years of chaos, in which 5,000 people died in factional violence between leftist and rightist groups. AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
Evren, 95, and Şahinkaya, 90, have already filed individual appeals to the Constitutional Court, arguing their rights have been violated due to the trial. AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AA Photo / Abdülhamid Hoşbaş
Demonstrators gather ahead of court verdict on trial of 1980 military coup leaders
AFP Photo / Adem Altan
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