17th High Criminal Court

An Ankara court made its ruling on June 15 in the case accusing 27 soldiers of abducting Secretary General of Presidency Fahri Kasırga on the night of Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt, handing down aggravated life sentences to 18 of the defendants and life sentences to five others, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

The suspects who are currently on trial for their alleged role in the July 2016 coup attempt are playing a game of Three Monkeys but they will not be able to "escape a painful end," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

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.

Former four-star general Akın Öztürk denied any involvement in a failed July 15, 2016, coup when he appeared before a court on May 22 in a trial against more than 200 soldiers regarding events at the Turkey's General Staff Headquarters on the night of the putsch.

The Ankara 17th High Criminal Court has begun a high-profile case against a total of 221 suspects, including former high-ranking generals who have been accused of perpetrating a bloody July 2016 coup attempt against a backdrop of pro-government protests.