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  • Turkey demands life imprisonment for US Consulate employee

    01/20/2019 1:44:53 PM PST · by Texas Fossil · 26 replies
    Kurdistan 24 (K24) ^ | 2 hours ago | Rawa Barwari
    ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Turkish prosecutors demand aggravated life imprisonment for a local US Consulate employee, Metin Topuz, who they charge with espionage for a foreign nation, membership in a terrorist organization, and participation in conspiracies to overthrow the government of Turkey.Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliament Speaker Binali Yildirim, former ministers Ali Babacan, Muammer Guler, and Zafer Caglayan – the last two themselves targets of a high-level corruption investigation in 2013 – and former Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag are among 30 officials who claimed victimhood and are plaintiffs in an indictment released this weekend against Topuz.The Turkish national who...
  • al-Qaida-Linked Cell in Turkey Said Gone

    12/26/2003 1:28:45 PM PST · by TexKat · 5 replies · 166+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 12/26/03 | JAMES C. HELICKE
    ISTANBUL, Turkey - Police arrests have dismantled an al-Qaida-linked cell believed to have carried out the Istanbul bombings that killed 62 people last month, a top official said Friday, but added that several leading members were at large abroad. A Turkish court charged nine more suspects Friday, including an alleged top member of the cell, with involvement in the bombings. In total, 44 people have been charged in last month's attacks. Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler told a news conference that authorities had captured most of the alleged militants involved in the attacks, which targeted two synagogues, a London-based bank and...