Kavala Is Turkey's Soros That Was Behind Gezi Park Riots: Erdogan
Date
4/27/2022 6:23:07 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
'Osman Kavala was 'Turkey's Soros' that was behind Gezi Park
riots,' President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised
statement late Wednesday, Trend reports citing Daily Sabah .
The Turkish leader also underlined European Court of Human
Rights (ECtHR) previously said that it needed local court's ruling
first.
'Now that the verdict is out and they will have to accept it as
it is,' he said.
Kavala faced charges over the 2013 Gezi Park protests which
started as a small number of demonstrations then became a
nationwide riots. Even though the was acquitted all of his charges
in February 202, an appeals court overturned the verdict.
He was also accused of being a part of 2016 defeated coup
orchestrated by the Gulenist Terror Group (FETO) in Turkey and the
court said it decided to acquit Kavala of espionage charge due to
lack of evidence.
On Monday, he was sentenced to life in prison after he was found
guilty of attempting to overthrow the government by financing 2013
Gezi Park protests.
Kavala's case has drawn international backlash on the grounds
that the had been kept in prison for years without a
conviction.
Tags:
- Turkey
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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