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At the 2 December hearing of the Bayrampaşa trial, the court insisted on an explanation of the gendarmerie regarding two contradicting records on the "Return to Life" operation. The gendarmerie officials face legal steps if they fail to send the videos and explanations.

The disclosure of the "Storm" plan gave a new twist to the Bayrampaşa trial on the "Return to Life" operation. The then Minister of Justice Türk and the former Prisons General Manager Ertosun said they were not informed about the plan. The defendants claimed not to remember anything.

In the Bayrampaşa Trial related to the "Return to Life" operation, the gendarmerie declared that the private soldiers on trial were not on duty at the Bayrampaşa Prison at the time. Other information required by the court "could not be found".

In the second hearing of the "Bayrampaşa trial" related to the "return to life" operation, the court decided to obtain the results of a previous probe into then Minister of Justice Türk, Minister of the Interior Tantan, Gendarmerie Commander Yalman and other officials.

39 gendarmerie officers are tried in the case regarding the "return to life" operation which left 30 people dead in Turkish prisons in 2000. 27 out of the 28 defendants that appeared at court claimed that they did not remember anything.