At the hearing at Ankara 4th High Criminal Court, the lawyers of the parties were present in the hall while the detained defendants were contacted via video conferencing from the prison they were in.
The plaintiff’s lawyers took the floor at the hearing, which was also attended by some political party and union representatives.
Lawyers demanded that the prosecution be expanded and that the documents about public officials who were negligent before the terrorist attack be evaluated by the court.
After the statements, the prosecutor explained his opinion on the merits.
The prosecutor read the evidence regarding the structure and activities of the terrorist organization DAESH and the contacts of the defendants with the organization in the terrorist attack in front of Ankara Train Station on October 10, 2015.
The prosecutor requested that the defendant Erman Ekici be sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment for a total of 102 times, once for “violating the constitutional order” and 101 times for “intentionally killing 101 people”.
Regarding the complainants’ opinion that the defendant committed a crime against humanity, the prosecutor stated that this crime should be considered within the scope of the crime of “violating the constitutional order”.
The prosecutor, who wanted Ekici to be sentenced to up to 6 thousand 822 years in prison for the crime of deliberately attempting to kill 379 people, said that the other defendants were Abdülmubtalip Demir, Talha Güneş, Metin Akaltın, Yakub Şahin, Hakan Şahin, Halil İbrahim Alçay, Resul Demir, Hacı Ali Durmaz and Hüseyin Tunç. He also requested aggravated life imprisonment for “deliberate murder”.
Prosecutor, fugitive defendants İlhami Balı, Savaş Yıldız, Edremit Türe, Deniz Büyükçelebi, Yakup Selağzı, Kasım Dere, Nusret Yılmaz, Mustafa Delibaşlar, Walentina Slobodjanjuk, Muhammet Zana Alkan, Ömer Deniz Dündar, Cebrail Kaya, Ahmet Güneş, Kenan Kutval, Bayram Yıldız and demanded that the files about Hasan Hüseyin Uğur be separated.
Defendant Ekici took the floor and asked for time to prepare his defense.
The court board adjourned the hearing to June 26, ruling that the detained defendants continue in their current condition and that the defendants and their lawyers be given time to prepare their defense on the merits.
– History of the case
The indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding the terrorist attack was accepted by the Ankara 4th High Criminal Court on July 13, 2016, and the first hearing was held on November 7, 2016.
As a result of the trial, the court decided the case on August 3, 2018 and sentenced 9 defendants to aggravated life imprisonment for a total of 101 times, one for “violating the constitutional order” and 100 times for “intentional murder of 100 people”, and the 16 fugitive defendants of the case. He also ruled that the file against him be separated.
A criminal complaint was filed for the defendant Ekici, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for “being the leader of an armed terrorist organization”, for the crimes of “violating the constitutional order”, “intentionally killing 100 people” and “attempting to kill” the complainants injured in the terrorist attack.
The 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals partially overturned the file in terms of some defendants. The chamber, which also overturned the conviction against Ekici on the charge of “establishing and leading an armed terrorist organization”, stated that Ekici should be tried for “intentional murder” and “crime against humanity”.
During the trial, Ankara 4th High Criminal Court combined the case against Ekici, the case against 16 fugitive defendants related to the attack, and the cases filed against 9 people, and the number of defendants in the trial became 26.
As a result of the death of one person due to the injuries he received in the attack, the number of victims increased to 101.
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