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That sounds strange, is this good? Journalists who helped organize anti government protests sentenced for 16 years in prison?
Not good at all.
I think there have been serious mistakes during the trials. Apart from everything else, the definition of terrorism acording to Turkish law is very large and with that law, you can accuse anybody as terrorists (btw..this law was made with the pressure from the army!! in 2007)
There are people there in the trial and sentenced, I would never doubt of their guilt. Veli Kucuk/Alpaslan Alpaslan/Kerincsiz etc. These are the people who arranged the killings of many innocent people including Hrant Dink to create a chaos so that the army can intevene again.
But they put people who have never took a rifle in their hands in jail too. Those journalists are amongs them (though, the accused journalists still could not explain what they were doing in coup meetings. Only M. Balbay said ´he was there on the journalistic purpose´ and he answered as ´I was going to make a book about it´ when he was asked ´then, why you did not write anything about those coup meetings in your newspaper´
Basically, the killings of journalists/intellects etc has stopped since the beggining of this trial. But I dont think The justice is served..
More importantly, I dont think thos trial found the roots of Turkeys deep state.
A good source and correct interpretetion :
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/08/ergenekon-verdict-turks-misinterpretation.html
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