Turkish 2016 Exoneration 165

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Charge:	Plotting governments' overthrow
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Year Crime:	2007
Year Convicted:	2013
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Turkey
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City of Crime:	Ankara
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Two-hundred seventy-five people were convicted in 2013 of charges related to an alleged 2007 plot to overthrow then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government. The plot was allegedly related to the discovery in 2007 of an arms cache in a house in an Istanbul, Turkey suburb. The alleged plotters included ex-military chief General Ilker Basbug, who was sentenced to life in jail after his conviction in August 2013, for his allegedly role in the "Ergenekon" plot. Military personnel, politicians, lawyers and journalists were among the 275 defendants convicted in the case. On April 21, 2016 Turkey's appeals court overturned the 2013 coup plot convictions, ruling that there had been no "Ergenekon terror group", and that evidence had been collected illegally. The prosecutor who led the Ergenekon investigation fled to Armenia in August 2015 when an arrest warrant was issued for him over his role in a separate investigation of alleged corruption in Erdogan's inner circle. In an unrelated case, a trial over an alleged 2003 plot against Erdogan, the "Sledgehammer" case, ended with the acquittal for more than 200 military officers in March 2015."
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Information Source 1:	"Turkish appeals court overturns 'Ergenekon' coup plot convictions, By Gulsen Solaker, Reuters, April 21, 2016"
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Turkish 2016 Exoneration 165

Charge:

Plotting governments' overthrow

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2007

Year Convicted:

2013

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Turkey

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Ankara

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

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"On April 21, 2016 Turkey's appeals court overturned the 2013 coup plot convictions, ruling that there had been no "Ergenekon terror group", and that evidence had been collected illegally."

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"Turkish appeals court overturns 'Ergenekon' coup plot convictions, By Gulsen Solaker, Reuters, April 21, 2016"

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-coup-trial-idUSKCN0XI1WS

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