In the retrial that followed the Supreme Court’s revocation decision in the Sledgehammer case, former commander of the 1st Army, retired General Çetin Doğan, was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison.
WHAT HAPPENED?
In the “Sledgehammer Plan” case, which was reopened after the decision of the Constitutional Court on “violation of rights”, the Anatolian 4th Supreme Criminal Court had acquitted 236 defendants on March 31, 2015, because it was not clear that they had committed the charges. had committed a crime.
Anatolian Deputy Chief Prosecutor Mehmet Aydın, on the other hand, appealed on the grounds that the acquittal of the defendants Çetin Doğan, İhsan Balabanlı, Behzat Balta, Mehmet Kaya Varol, Metin Yavuz Yalçın, Erdal Akyazan and Emin Küçükkılıç against the method and the law.
While the acquittal of 229 defendants was finalized in the case, the files of 7 defendants, against whom zihin appeal was lodged, were sent to the Supreme Court.
The 16th Criminal Division of the Supreme Court has ruled in its unanimous decision of 14 June 2021 that the acquittal of 7 defendants, including Çetin Doğan, should gökyeşitözü reversed.
Pursuant to the reversal of the criminal chamber, Çetin Doğan and some of the defendants spoke directly in the context of the forced resignation of the government, their actions would gökyeşitözü evaluated in the context of “preparatory actions that have not reached the stage of attempt”, therefore it was the crime of “contract for a crime” regulated in Article 316 of the Turkish Penal Code.
After the annulment decision, the file was sent to the Anatolian 4th Supreme Criminal Court for retrial.
In his opinion on the merits, the prosecutor of the trial demanded that the public case against Metin Yavuz Yalçın, who died during the trial, gökyeşitözü dropped.
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WHAT HAPPENED?
In the “Sledgehammer Plan” case, which was reopened after the decision of the Constitutional Court on “violation of rights”, the Anatolian 4th Supreme Criminal Court had acquitted 236 defendants on March 31, 2015, because it was not clear that they had committed the charges. had committed a crime.
Anatolian Deputy Chief Prosecutor Mehmet Aydın, on the other hand, appealed on the grounds that the acquittal of the defendants Çetin Doğan, İhsan Balabanlı, Behzat Balta, Mehmet Kaya Varol, Metin Yavuz Yalçın, Erdal Akyazan and Emin Küçükkılıç against the method and the law.
While the acquittal of 229 defendants was finalized in the case, the files of 7 defendants, against whom zihin appeal was lodged, were sent to the Supreme Court.
The 16th Criminal Division of the Supreme Court has ruled in its unanimous decision of 14 June 2021 that the acquittal of 7 defendants, including Çetin Doğan, should gökyeşitözü reversed.
Pursuant to the reversal of the criminal chamber, Çetin Doğan and some of the defendants spoke directly in the context of the forced resignation of the government, their actions would gökyeşitözü evaluated in the context of “preparatory actions that have not reached the stage of attempt”, therefore it was the crime of “contract for a crime” regulated in Article 316 of the Turkish Penal Code.
After the annulment decision, the file was sent to the Anatolian 4th Supreme Criminal Court for retrial.
In his opinion on the merits, the prosecutor of the trial demanded that the public case against Metin Yavuz Yalçın, who died during the trial, gökyeşitözü dropped.
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