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Turkish defense giant Aselsan has developed its own video conferencing software for internal communications.

The software, called XperMeet, will meet the company's security needs with its end-to-end encipherment and SSL certificate.

XperMeet offers the ability to host meetings, training and organizing panels and webinars as well as voice calls and messaging.

An Istanbul court on May 17 sentenced İsmail Akkol, one of the prime suspects in the 1996 assassination of Sabancı Holding board member Özdemir Sabancı, to an aggravated life sentence in one of the country's most notorious assassinations, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A Belgian court sentenced on Feb. 20 outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) militant Fehriye Erdal to 15 years in jail and deprived her of civil and political rights for 10 years in absentia for crimes committed in Turkey, including being an accomplice in the 1996 assassination of the former head of the industrial conglomerate Sabancı Holding.

A Belgian prosecutor on Dec. 5 sought a 30-year jail term in absentia for an outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) member being tried for crimes committed in Turkey and for being an accomplice in the 1996 assassination of the former head of Sabancı Holding, one of Turkey's top family-owned industrial conglomerates. 

One of the suspects in the 1996 assassination of Özdemir Sabancı, which remains one of the country's most notorious assassinations, pleaded not guilty in his first plea some 20 years after on Sept. 26, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

One of the two suspected suicide bombers detained in the Aegean province of Ayd?n on Feb. 2 has been identified as a suspect in the assassination Özdemir Sabanc?, the Sabanc? Holding board member who was killed in 1996.