Turkey: Heavy sentences for Sledgehammer case

20 years in prison convicted former commanders of the First Army, Retired generals Cetin Dogan and Ergin Saigon, the Navy retired admiral Oznten Ornek and Air Force Gen. e.aIbrahim Firtina known case for "Sledgehammer" in which judges in total 365 persons (250 detained), of which 14 are active senior officers of the armed forces and 66 retired senior officers, on charges of attempt to impose a military coup. According to the indictment, the plan drafted by junta led by the former commander of the First Army Gen. Cetin Dogan e.a. It was a regular seminar held on 5-7 March 2003 in the First Army. At the seminar there were four sub-projects on the movements of the Navy, the Air Force and the Army. These plans are provided, including installation and bomb in two major mosques in Istanbul in order to challenge the conditions of chaos and forcing the government to declare martial law, and the challenge of falling Turkish fighter aircraft from the Greek Aegean, so that cause confusion. All with the ultimate aim of making military coup. The first stage of the project involved the collection and use of this information, the second to create the conditions for imposing coup, the third out of the coup, the fourth the formation of a government of national unity and making the fifth parliamentary elections. The trial began on 16 December 2010 and 29 March 2012 the prosecutor asked for the defendants sentences of 15-20 years for alleged attempted coup against the government. During the hearing, defense counsel argued that the indictment contains contradictions and incorrect data. To emerging, according to the indictment, drawings refer to a warship, which was constructed in 2005, however, while the seminar was held in March 2003. There is a list of companies, whose assets were confiscated, but one of them took the title referred to the project in 2009. Some fonts appear to have been used in various electronic files of the project is delayed. Several other points in the indictment are similar problems.