Ergenekon trials

A Turkish court on July 11 gave aggravated life sentences to two convicts in the high-profile murder of a prosecutor in Istanbul in 2015, according to a judicial source.

A Turkish court on July 1 handed down life sentences to four defendants of Ergenekon case for violating the constitution.

A Turkish court on June 26 convicted 47 defendants with aggravated life terms for the incidents that took place in a military academy during the July 15 defeated coup in Turkey, according to a judicial source.         

An Istanbul court has sentenced six former journalists to prison sentences on charges of being members of a terror organization, while acquitting five others of all charges.

A Turkish court has approved an indictment of 14 suspects in the high-profile 2015 murder of a prosecutor in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on June 29, citing a judicial source.

Public prosecutors in Istanbul on May 14 demanded aggravated life sentences in various cases linked to the night of the July 2016 coup attempt. 

Opposition parties criticized two newly issued state of emergency decrees, which extended President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's powers in line with the new executive presidential system. 

I had an appointment with Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on July 21. 

A prosecutor told the Istanbul 4th Heavy Penal Court on June 21 that some 19 senior generals, including former Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ, could not be tried in local courts regarding the reopened Ergenekon plot case. 

Lawyers of former general  Mehmet Partigöç, who appeared at an Ankara court on May 29 in the trial regarding events at the General Staff Headquarters on the night of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, did not show up at the hearing.