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Court Hands Down Harsh Verdicts in Ergenekon Case: Drs. Haberal, Hilmioğlu, Gürüz get 13 to 23 Years

English: Mehmet Haberal ve Nakil Yaptigi Cocuklar

Dr. Mehmet Haberal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On August 5, 2013, the trial court in the five-year old Ergenekon trial, alleging that military officers  and secularist allies planned an unsuccessful coup to overthrow the elected Islamic-leaning government, the High Criminal Court handed down severe sentences based on thousands of pages of indictments, based on trials described by international observers as lacking due process.

Of the academics for whom CCS has been advocating, Dr. Mehmet Haberal received a sentence of twelve years and six months in prison was but subsequently released for having completed his sentence during the trial. Prof. Fatih Hilmioğlu has been sentenced to 23 years, and remains in jail. Dr. Kemal Guruz was sentenced to 13 years and 11 months. The defendants plan to appeal, CCS will support their right to protest these proceedings.

For more details about the defendants, see our Turkish archive.

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