Viewers Corner News correspondent learned that a court in Istanbul (Turkey) has ordered on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 the release of Amnesty International’s Turkey chairman (Taner Kilic) pending a verdict in his trial. Taner Kilic who was imprisoned in June 2017 was accused by Turkey government of having links to US-based Muslim preacher (Fethullah Gulen) who Turkey said orchestrated the 2016 country’s failed coup in July 2016. Also our correspondent gathered that three people belonging to Islamic state group were on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for being involved in the bomb attack in Jannary 2016 at Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district which killed 12 German tourists and wounded 15 people. According to the report, the three men (Hasan al Mayyuf, Fevzi Muhammed Ali and Halil Dervis) were sentenced to life in prison for breaching Turkey’s constitution and to additional 329 years each for killing 12 people and the attempted murder of 16 people injured in the bomb attack which the Islamic state claimed responsibility. A fourth defendant was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for being a member of a terrorist organization while the other 18 people were acquitted.
Source: Viewers Corner News.