MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Life sentence for the “coup raid” on TRT
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
TRT
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
07/04/2021
LEGAL REMEDIES CATEGORIES
Struggle Against Administrative Restrictions
MEDIA
National Media

At the final hearing held at the Sincan Penal Institutions Campus, the Ankara 19th High Criminal Court handed down its ruling regarding the raid on the state channel TRT building during the attempted coup on July 15, 2016. Former Colonel Tanju Poshor, who led the raid, was sentenced to life imprisonment aggravated twice. The ruling was given in the trial of 497 defendants over the incidents at the Presidential Guard Regiment. Former Lieutenant Colonel Ümit Gençer, who made the presenter read out the coup declaration on TRT, was given an aggravated life sentence for “violating the Constitutional order” (April 7).