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Three defendants have been sentenced to aggravated lifetime imprisonment and 329 years in prison each in the trial about the attack launched in Sultanahmet against tourists from Germany, killing 12 people. 18 defendants have been acquitted.

Only one high-ranking official has been discharged, none resigned despite attacks in Reyhanlı, Diyarbakır, Suruç, Ankara, Sultanahmet, and Ankara killing 234 people and injuring over a thousand.

Death toll has risen to 11 as one of the wounded has lost her life.