Trials Begin In Istanbul For Turkish Police Believed To Be Planners Of July 15 Coup Attempt

Almost 30 Turkish police – believed to be planners in the failed July 15 bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – went on trial Tuesday in Istanbul, the first trial of the group within the Turkish metropolis, AFP reported Tuesday. With some 41,000 coup suspects under arrest in a state of emergency, the nationwide trials of the accused are set to be the most far-reaching legal process in Turkish history. Some smaller scale trials for suspects have already begun in the provinces as 60 people went on trial in the southwestern city of Denizli on Monday, the report said. The Istanbul trial is the most significant to date, the report said, and is taking place under tight security in a gigantic...