A total of 143 suspects, including 30 officers, will appear in court. Monday’s trial is one of several legal processes seeking to bring to justice those believed to have played a role in the coup bid which left 249 people dead, not including the putschists. Many civilians rushed to the bridge on the night of the coup, heeding Erdogan’s call to quash the putsch bid, but the renegade soldiers then shot at them. Thirty-four civilians and seven coup plotters were killed on the Bosphorus bridge, according to the indictment. Erdogan attended the funeral of the Olcoks and others two days after the coup bid, weeping openly in a rare show of emotion.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 09, 2017 09:00 UTC