Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş
Turkish coup plotters sentenced to life in prison
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to 34 people for plotting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year’s failed coup.
The 34 were given four life sentences each at the trial in the southwestern city of Mugla, state-run TRT Haber television said.
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Coup-plotting general has financial links to Gülen network, Turkish crime board says
A report by Turkey's Financial Crime Investigation Board (MASAK) listed former Brigadier General Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş's financial links with the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), Doğan News Agency reported on July 27.
Where is the political leg of the Gülenists?
"The organization has been able to have legal arrangements done by the political authority." This is a sentence from the indictment into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), written by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office.
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Hundreds of fingerprints found on key documents at coup bid HQ in Turkey
Hundreds of fingerprints have been found on documents seized from the Akıncı Air Base, which was used as a headquarters by the perpetrators of the July 2016 coup, according to Turkish authorities.
Failed coup attempt planned a week before July 15, indictment reveals
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.