ISTANBUL – At the end of March, a retrial finally resulted in the acquittal of more than 200 Turkish military officers who had been convicted of plotting a coup in 2003 against the then-newly elected Islamist government. The defendants had been given long prison sentences after the first trial concluded in September 2012, even though the evidence against them was clearly forged.
伊斯坦布尔——3月底，200多名土耳其军官在重审时被无罪释放，这些人之前曾以2003年策划针对当时新当选伊斯兰政府政变的罪名被判决有罪。即使对他们不利的证据显系伪造，2012年9月结束的首审仍判处几位被告长期监禁。到审判结束时，多数观察家认为原来的诉讼是一场骗局。