A state security court in Izmir sentenced to death...
A state security court in Izmir sentenced to death three leftist militants convicted of acts of terror - the first such judgment since parliament passed in October a law lifting the death penalty for most crimes
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A state security court in Izmir sentenced to death three leftist militants convicted of acts of terror - the first such judgment since parliament passed in October a law lifting the death penalty for most crimes.
The sentences were levied against Yalcin Hafci, Suleyman Erol, Ozlem Tasdemir, all members of the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) for trying to subvert the constitutional order and shooting dead a Turkish soldier in Denizli province in 1998.
The sentences were levied against Yalcin Hafci, Suleyman Erol, Ozlem Tasdemir, all members of the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) for trying to subvert the constitutional order and shooting dead a Turkish soldier in Denizli province in 1998.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Reuters, Anatolia, 27/11/2001)
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