Turkey has jailed hundreds of people for life for taking part in the failed putsch in 2016, as EU leaders prepare to decide on future relations.
The mass-sentencing took place in Ankara on Thursday (26 November) after a three-year long trial.
It saw 337 people, most of them young air-force officers from the Akinci air-base, imprisoned for life.
The Turkish trial also charged Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric living in exile in the US, with masterminding the failed attempt...
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