MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Aggravated life sentence for the raid on TRT
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
TRT
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
20/06/2019
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Impunity for Violence
MEDIA
National Media

In the trial of 224 defendants as part of the General Staff Roof Case into the attempted coup of July 15, 2016, the Ankara 17th High Criminal Court sentenced Presidency’s former Guard Regiment Commander Muhsin Kutsi Barış to aggravated life imprisonment on the grounds that he had ordered the raid on the state channel TRT (June 20).