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Turkey jails 4 over attack that killed German tourists
[DW] A court has sentenced four men to life for their roles in a 2016 suicide kaboom in central Istanbul that killed 12 German tourists. Eighteen other suspects were acquitted on the grounds of a lack of evidence.

A Ottoman Turkish court sentenced four men to life in jail on Tuesday for their roles in a suicide kaboom in Istanbul in January 2016.

The incident, on the city's historic Sultanahmet square, killed 12 German tourists and maimed 16 other people.
The jacket wallah was Turkman-Syrian Nabil Fadli, 28, who had crossed into Turkey to request asylum just a month before he mingled in a crowd of tourists with malicious intent.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
's government blamed the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 for the incident, but the group has never grabbed credit.
...suggesting it was some other jihadi group based in Syria, which then, as now, was an endless list...
FOUR SUSPECTS RECEIVE LIFE SENTENCES
The four suspects, already in jail, received aggravated life sentences. The Istanbul court that handed out the sentences ruled that the attack represented "an attempt to violent mostly peacefully overthrow the constitutional order," the private DHA news agency reported.

Aggravated life sentences are the most severe prison terms possible in Turkey since it abolished the death penalty
 in 2002; there is no chance for parole.

Additionally, each was also sentenced to 328 years for aiding deliberate murder with terrorist intent, among other charges, according to state news agency Anadolu.

A LONG-RUNNING COURT CASE
Tuesday's sentences are final after an appeals court overturned a 2018 verdict against a total of 26 suspects.

One further suspect was sentenced to over six years in jail for membership in a terrorist organization.

The court acquitted 18 further suspects, citing lack of evidence.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
 a trial in absentia will continue against three suspects who are runaways, Anadolu said.

In 2018, Ottoman Turkish judges sentenced three Syrian nationals to life in prison for their involvement in the bombing. But an appeals court overturned that verdict for several reasons, including that the sentences were deemed too lenient.

The court did not state the nationality of those handed the sentences on Tuesday.

Turkey witnessed several attacks in 2016 blamed either on Islamic State or Kurdish murderous Moslems.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-08
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