Verdict Issued in Ergenekon Case

Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court issued a verdict in Ergenekon case this afternoon, announcing sentences for 275 defendants including former army chief İlker Başbuğ, CHP deputy Mustafa Balbay, Labor Party chairman Doğu Perinçek and journalist Tuncay Özkan. 

21 defendants acquitted 

CHP Zonguldak province deputy Mehmet Haberal has been released considering the length of prison term. 16 other defendants including Mehmet Otuzbiroğlu, Hıfzı Çubukçu and Mehmet Perinçek have also been released for similar reasons. 

The court issue arrest warrants for 11 defendants including Yurt newspaper editor-in-chief Merdan Yanardağ, former Gendarmerie Forces Chief Şener Eruygur and former Istanbul University president Kemal Alemdaroğlu. Other names on the arrest warrant list were as follows: Yalçın Küçük, Tuncer Kılınç, Ahmet Cinali, Adnan Türkkan, Hüseyin Buzoğlu, Tunç Akkoç, Adnan Akfırat, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Kemal Şahin, Levent Temiz.

There is no current information on Merdan Yanardağ as the court didn't read the name,Yurt newspaper wrote.

Acquitted defendants were as follows: Ali Yiğit, journalist Caner Taşpınar, Süleyman Esen, director Halis Yavuz Işıklar and Salih Kunter.

The court also dismissed cases for those who died during the long trial. 

The case for other fugitive defendants including Bedrettin Dalan and Turhan Çömez has been separated from the main case. 

Some of the announced verdicts were as follows: 

Life sentences

* Former army chief İlker Başbuğ (life sentence)

* Council of State gunman Alparslan Arslan (2 life sentences with no parole + 90 years)

* Retired Tuğgeneral Veli Küçük (2 life sentences with no parole)

* Muzaffer Tekin (2 life sentences with no parole + 117 years)

* Labor Party Chairman Doğu Perinçek (life sentence with no parole)

* Former Army 1 Commander Hasan Iğsız (life sentence)

* Former Gendarmerie Commander Şener Eruygur (life sentence)

* Retired Army General Hurşit Tolon (life sentence)

* Retired Army General Nusret Taşdeler (life sentence)

* Retired Colonel Dursun Çiçek (life sentence with no parole)

* Journalist Tuncay Özkan (life sentence with no parole + 15 years)

* Dursun Ali Özoğlu (life sentence with no parole)

* Retired Albay Fikri Karadağ (life sentence with no parole)

* Advocate Kemal Kerinçsiz (life sentence with no parole)

* Turkey’s Orthodox Patriarchy Spokesperson Sevgi Erenerol (life sentence)

* Hasan Ataman Yıldırım (life sentence with no parole)

* Worker Union administrator Mustafa Özbek (life sentence)

Prison sentences

* CHP Zonguldak deputy Mehmet Haberal 12 years 6 months

* Former Army Judicial Advisor Hıfzı Çubuklu 9 years 6 months 

* Former Army Judicial Advisor Erdal Şenel 7 years 6 months 

* Retired Army General Tuncer Kılınç 13 years 2 months 

* Retired Army General Kemal Yavuz 7 years 6 months 

* Retired Brigade General Levent Ersöz 22 years 6 months 

* Retired Brigade Amiral Alaattin Sevim 10 years 

* Retired Lieutenant General İsmail Hakkı Pekin 7.5 years 

* Retired Lieutenant Amiral Mehmet Otuzbiroğlu 20 years 6 months 

* Retired Colonel Arif Doğan 47 years 3 months

* Colonel İlyas Çınar 12 years 2 months 

* Retired Colonel Levent Göktaş 23 years 9 months 

* Retired Colonel Hasan Atilla Uğur 29 years 3 months

* Retired Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Dönmez 49 years 2 months 

* Retired Field Officer Fikret Emek 41 years 4 months 

* Lieutenant Noyan Çalıkuşu 8 years 6 months

* Lieutenant Mehmet Ali Çelebi 16 years 6 months 

* Retired Petty Officer Mehmet Demirtaş 22 years 

* Retired soldier and advocate Serdar Öztürk 25 years 6 months

* Retired Petty Officer Zekariya Öztürk 19 years 6 months

* Former Special Ops Chamber Interim Commander İbrahim Şahin 49 years 4 months

* Former Police Commissioner Adil Serdar Saçan 14 years 5 months 

* CHP deputy Sinan Aygün 13 years 6 months

* Journalist Mustafa Balbay 34 years 8 months 

* Writer Yalçın Küçük 22 years 6 months 

* Journalist Adnan Bulut 6 years 

* Former Aydınlık magazine editor-in-chief Ferhan Bolluk 7 years 6 months 

* Journalist Vedat Yenerer 7 years 6 months 

* Journalist Ünal İnanç 19 years 1 month 

* Cumhuriyet newspaper bombing suspect Bedirhan Şinal 18 years 8 months 

* Former İstanbul University president Kemal Alemdaroğlu 15 years 8 months

* Former YÖK president Kemal Gürüz 13 years 11 months 

* Former İnönü University President Fatih Hilmioğlu 23 years 

 * Former university president Ferit Bernay 10 years 

* Former university president Mustafa Yurtkuran 10 years 

* Labor Party vice chairman Ferit İlsever 15 years 

* UBP chairperson Semih Tufan Gülaltay 12 years 

* Sedat Peker 10 years 

* Mehmet Perinçek 6 years 

* Ali Yasak (aka Drej Ali) 6 years 3 months 

* The files of Bedrettin Dalan and Turan Çömez have been separated from the main case. 

* Ferda Paksüt 2 years 6 months 

* Council of State attacks suspect Osman Yıldırım 8 years 9 months  

* Ergun Poyraz 29 years 4 months 

* Labor Party lawyer Emcet Olcayto 13 years 2 months 

* Prof. Dr. Erol Manisalı 9 years 

* Bekir Öztürk 12 years

* Turan Özlü 9 years

* Güler Kömürcü 7 years 6 months

* Özlem Konur Usta 6 years 3 months

* Fatma Cengiz 11 years 

* Former Esenyurt mayor Gürbüz Çapan 1 years 3 months 

* Asso. Prof. Dr. Ümit Sayın from Forensics Institute 4 years 

* Labor Party member Hikmet Çiçek 21 years 9 months 

* Labor Party administrator Hayrettin Ertekin 12 years 

* Former Ülkü Ocakları chairman and advocate Levent Temiz 10 years 

* Boğaç Kaan Murathan 17 years 

* Labor Party administrator Adnan Akfırat 19 years 

* İbrahim Özcan 12 years 

* Aydınlık magazine editor-in-chief Deniz Yıldırım 16 years 10 months 

* İbrahim Özcan 14 years 8 months 

* Advocate Nusret Senem 20 years 3 months 

 * Oktay Yıldırım (military equipment has been found in his apartment) 33 years 10 months

 * Sami Hoştan 10 years 

 * Kemal Aydın 20 years 8 months (YY/AS/BM)

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