WorldAlmost 50 suspects went on trial on Monday accused of plotting to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel on the night of the botched July 15 coup. The trial was taking place under the highest security with snipers posted on rooftops and helicopters circling overhead. Erdogan, who was holidaying at a hotel in the upmarket Aegean resort of Marmaris with his family on the night of the coup, has said the plot left him 15 minutes from death. The preacher, who is on trial in several cases in Turkey, is one of the three suspects still at large in the assassination plot trial. The Mugla trial is one of many now getting under way across the country to judge the coup suspects, the biggest legal process in the country's modern history.

Source: Sunday Times February 20, 2017 14:31 UTC