A Turkish court on Friday sentenced a group of seven gendarmerie officers and prosecutors over the 2014 case of National Intelligence Organization (MIT) trucks stopped illegally near the Turkish-Syrian border.
AT LEAST TWO DECADES
All but two of the defendants, convicted by Ankara’s 16th Supreme Court of obtaining and disclosing confidential state documents, got sentences of at least two decades behind bars.
In the MIT trucks case, former Gendarmerie Commander Col. Ozkan Cokay and former Brig. Gen. Hamza Celepoglu were both sentenced to about 20 years in prison.
Suleyman Bagriyanik, Adana’s former chief public prosecutor, got over 22 years in prison. Former Adana prosecutor Ahmet Karaca was sentenced to 26 years, while former deputy public prosecutor Ahmet Karaca got nearly 19 years in prison. Former Adana prosecutor Aziz Takci was sentenced to 26 years, and former prosecutor Ozcan Sisman was sentenced to over 17 years in prison.