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The appeal court ruled that it was lawful for four defendants to be sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment and three defendants to 10 years and 6 months in prison in the “roof case” against 75 defendants, including the Organization’s leader. Terrorist Fetullah (FETÖ) Fetullah Gülen.
The 20th Criminal Division of the Ankara Regional Court of Justice completed the appeal review of the file, which was resolved by the Fourth Superior Criminal Court of Ankara. As a result of the examination, the Chamber determined that the local court’s decision was in accordance with the law.
Among the defendants, Hidayet Karaca, former deputy editor of the Samanyolu Publishing Group, İlhan İşbilen, former licensee Alaeddin Kaya of the closed newspaper Zaman and Kazim Avcı, son of the aunt of the leader of the terrorist organization Fetullah Gülen, were charged with “life aggravated “by” the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order. Gülen’s lawyer, Abdülkadir Aksoy, lawyer Ali Çelik and businessman Dilaver Azim were sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison for “belonging to an armed terrorist organization”.
It was claimed that Karaca, İşbilen, Kaya and Avcı had direct contact with the organization leader Fetullah Gülen and were among the limited number of organization leaders who had direct contact with him, and that these defendants, who had been in the organization for many years, they informed Gülen about their activities. It was noted that they received instructions and had a voice in determining and implementing the organization’s policies.
In the decision it was expressed that these names, who were administrators in many units of the organization, wanted to change the constitutional order and give rise to a totalitarian theocratic order based on the dominance of the group, where Gülen was the magnet of the universe, participated in the activities of the organization for that purpose and engaged in activities that make up the majority of them.
The decision noted that Abdülkadir Aksoy, Dilaver Azim and Ali Çelik (1972) also had organic ties to the organization and were members of the organization’s hierarchy, so their actions constituted the crime of “being a member of a terrorist organization navy”.
The court also decided to continue the detention of 7 defendants.
There is a right of appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision of the chamber.
CASE BACKGROUND
The Ankara Prosecutor General’s Office sent the indictment against 73 defendants, including FETÖ ringleader Fetullah Gülen, to Ankara High Criminal Court IV on July 14, 2016.
The number of defendants was 75 as a result of the combination of the suits brought by the Main Prosecutor’s Office against the fugitive Adil Öksüz, who was determined to be at the Akıncı base, and Mahmut Akpınar, who was determined to be the organization manager, on July 15, 2016.
The 4th High Criminal Court of Ankara convicted 7 defendants as a result of the trial, dropped the case of Cemal Uşak, who died during the trial, and separated the files of Chieftain Gülen and the other defendants because they were fugitives.
However, İşbilen, Kaya, Avcı and Karaca, among the defendants who were convicted, are still on trial in the reserved file due to some crimes committed within the scope of the organization’s activities.
