TIME after tIMe - Memburu Penyihir? Tangan-tangan Turkey daripada hukuman penjara seumur hidup dalam bayangan. Percubaan
rampasan kuasa kerajaan. Sebuah mahkamah Turki menurunkan ayat zalim dalam
perbicaraan hampir 300 komplot rampasan kuasa yang didakwa. Hanya 21 daripada
275 defendan telah dibebaskan.
Pertempuran dengan polis
ditakuti sebagai pembangkang, yang memanggil perbicaraan yang “memburu ahli
sihir,” adalah menyediakan bantahan terhadap aturan.
Ayat sengit untuk penulis,
tentera dan pemimpin-pemimpin politik di Turki percubaan plot rampasan kuasa. Sebuah
mahkamah Turki telah diturunkan beberapa ayat hidup dalam perbicaraan ‘Ergenekon’
hampir 300 komplot rampasan kuasa yang didakwa, termasuk ketua bekas tentera
Ilker Basbug dan beberapa ex-top brass, bersama-sama dengan pemimpin-pemimpin
parti berhaluan kiri dan seorang wartawan.
Hanya 21 defendan telah
dibebaskan setakat ini. Pasukan keselamatan Turki bersiap sedia menghadapi
protes besar daripada pembangkang di penjara Silivri, barat Istanbul, di mana
aturan diumumkan.
Walaupun pengharaman untuk
perhimpunan yang dikeluarkan sebelum penghantaran keputusan itu, penunjuk
perasaan mula tiba ke mahkamah sejak awal pagi. Pengkritik kerajaan Erdogan,
termasuk parti pembangkang utama, menyifatkan perbicaraan itu sebagai “memburu
ahli sihir politik” bertujuan untuk menindak tradisi sekular negara yang kukuh.
RT Irina Galushko ini,
laporan dari luar kompleks penjara itu, kata media tempatan menganggarkan
bilangan anggota keselamatan di 10,000, dengan 13 meriam air telah ditemui di
tapak.
Witch Hunt? Turkey hands out
life sentences in shadow govt coup trial. A Turkish court handed down draconian
sentences in the trial of nearly 300 alleged coup plotters. Only 21 out of 275
defendants have been acquitted.
Clashes with police are
feared as the opposition, which is calling the trial a "witch hunt,"
is preparing protests against the verdicts.
Stiff sentences for writers,
military and political leaders in Turkish coup plot trial. A Turkish court has
handed down several life sentences in the ‘Ergenekon’ trial of nearly 300
alleged coup plotters, including for ex-army chief Ilker Basbug and several
other ex-top brass, along with leftist party leaders and a journalist.
Only 21 defendants have been
acquitted so far. Turkish security forces were braced for large protests from
the opposition at Silivri prison, west of Istanbul, where the verdicts were
announced.
Despite bans for rallies
being issued prior to the verdict delivery, demonstrators started arriving to
the courthouse since early in the morning. Critics of Erdogan’s government,
including the main opposition party, have described the trial as a “political
witch hunt” aimed at cracking down on the country’s strong secularist
traditions.
RT’s Irina Galushko,
reporting from outside the prison complex, said local media estimated the
number of security personnel at 10,000, with 13 water cannons having been spotted
at the site.
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