Feridun Çoban

A Greek appeals court has blocked the extradition of the final two of eight soldiers who requested asylum after they fled to the country following the July 2016 coup attempt, in the second such refusal by Athens to extradite all the servicemen.

A Greek appeals court on May 3 rejected the extradition of three more Turkish soldiers out of eight who requested asylum in the country after the July 2016 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

It is the second such decision by the appeals court in Athens, with the extradition of six of the soldiers having been rejected.

A Greek appeals court on April 25 rejected the extradition of three Turkish soldiers out of eight who requested asylum in the country after fleeing following Turkey's failed July 2016 coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A Greek appeals court will reconsider extraditing eight fugitive Turkish soldiers who requested asylum in the country after fleeing following the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, according to media reports.      

A plot to kidnap and assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of the July 15 coup attempt was planned a week before the failed bid, at a meeting in a mansion in Ankara, a prosecutors' indictment into 47 putschist soldiers has alleged. 

A Greek court on Nov. 28 held the first hearing in a case regarding the potential extradition of eight Turkish military pilots who fled to the country a day after the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey.