Akin Ipek said that the court’s judgment was “perverse” PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERSThe brother and 75-year-old mother of an exiled Turkish tycoon accused of links to the country’s 2016 coup attempt have been jailed on terrorism charges. Akin Ipek, who fled to London in October 2015 shortly before the seizure of his business empire, described the judgment as “ludicrous and perverse” and “the latest evidence of a total collapse of the rule of law in Turkey”. His brother, Cafer Tekin Ipek, who was arrested in April 2016, was sentenced to 79 years and 9 months in prison and fined 250,000 lira (£32,300) after being convicted of terrorism and tax offences. Melek Ipek, his mother, was convicted of membership of a terrorist organisation. Mr Ipek, 56, is accused of…

Source: The Times January 22, 2020 00:00 UTC