A court
in Istanbul on Friday sentenced six Turkish journalists to aggravated life
imprisonment each over their alleged involvement in a failed coup in July 2016,
local media reported.
The defendants, including Turkey’s well-known
journalists Nazli Ilicak, Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, were charged with
trying to remove the constitutional order, the state-run Anadolu news agency
reported.
Turkey believes that the coup attempt, in which
250 people were killed, was orchestrated by the network led by the U.S.-based
Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
No fewer than 150,000 officials and officers
have been dismissed or suspended from their posts while over 55,000 others
arrested in the ongoing investigation and crackdown.
-Xinhua/NAN
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