6 people jailed across Turkey for FETO terror links

By Sibel Ugurlu

ANKARA (AA) – Six people were convicted and sentenced to jail on Thursday for being members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind last year’s defeated coup, according to a security source.

A high criminal court in the Black Sea Kastamonu province gave four former teachers jail terms ranging from three to nine years in prison.

The court also convicted a former forensics department head to seven years and six months in prison.

The 2nd High Criminal Court in the eastern Erzurum province sentenced a woman who was the so-called head of FETO’s Kastamonu’s Pasinler district to over six years in prison.

They were all convicted of membership in an armed terrorist organization.

FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup attempt of July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.