Officers guilty in coup plot ISTANBUL -- A Turkish court convicted 330 military officers, including three former top generals, and sentenced them to prison terms as long as 20 years Friday in a trial of suspects from the armed forces accused of a wide-ranging plot to overthrow the government nearly a decade ago. Thirty-four were acquitted. The convictions and sentences, reported by the Turkish media, signaled completion of the first trial in a civilian court of defendants in a coup plot known as Sledgehammer, said to be...
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