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In the trial over the killing of Uğur Kantar by torture during his mandatory military service, a heavy penal court in Ankara has sentenced defendant Fırat Keser to aggravated life imprisonment for “causing death as a result of torture.”

Trial procedures regarding soldier Uğur Kantar who allegedly died as the result of torture are still going slowly. The Ankara Forensic Medicine Institution was not able to determine the reason for Kantar's death. The trial was postponed to 20 April.