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| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces change days after nearly 500 defendants appeared in court in mass trial of putsch suspects | |
| Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul | |
| Mon 7 Aug 2017 12.27 BST | |
| Last modified on Mon 27 Nov 2017 18.52 GMT | |
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| Suspects on trial over last year’s coup attempt in Turkey will wear a brown uniform during their hearings, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced, after a controversy over a defendant wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “hero” during a court appearance. | Suspects on trial over last year’s coup attempt in Turkey will wear a brown uniform during their hearings, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced, after a controversy over a defendant wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “hero” during a court appearance. |
| The Turkish president made his announcement during a speech in the city of Malatya, days after nearly 500 defendants, including top generals and officers, appeared in court. It was the largest mass trial of suspects accused of masterminding and carrying out the attempted putsch last July, in which 250 people were killed and 1,400 wounded. | The Turkish president made his announcement during a speech in the city of Malatya, days after nearly 500 defendants, including top generals and officers, appeared in court. It was the largest mass trial of suspects accused of masterminding and carrying out the attempted putsch last July, in which 250 people were killed and 1,400 wounded. |
| “There will be no more coming to courts wearing whatever they want,” Erdoğan said, according to the daily newspaper Hürriyet. “They will be introduced to the world like that.” | “There will be no more coming to courts wearing whatever they want,” Erdoğan said, according to the daily newspaper Hürriyet. “They will be introduced to the world like that.” |
| A suspect accused of belonging to the Fethullah Gülen movement, which is widely believed in Turkey to have masterminded the coup attempt and is led by an exiled preacher in the United States, wore the “hero” T-shirt to his hearing. | A suspect accused of belonging to the Fethullah Gülen movement, which is widely believed in Turkey to have masterminded the coup attempt and is led by an exiled preacher in the United States, wore the “hero” T-shirt to his hearing. |
| Several people were detained afterwards for wearing the same shirt. At a rally on the anniversary of the coup last month, Erdoğan had called for the suspects to be dressed in orange jumpsuits like those worn by people incarcerated in the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. | Several people were detained afterwards for wearing the same shirt. At a rally on the anniversary of the coup last month, Erdoğan had called for the suspects to be dressed in orange jumpsuits like those worn by people incarcerated in the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. |
| Tens of thousands of people have been dismissed from their jobs or detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement in the months since the failed coup, and trials are ongoing for many of the top military officers and civilians accused by prosecutors of leading the putsch. The broad crackdown has gone beyond the alleged perpetrators, however, and has ensnared journalists, academics, judges and civil servants. | Tens of thousands of people have been dismissed from their jobs or detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement in the months since the failed coup, and trials are ongoing for many of the top military officers and civilians accused by prosecutors of leading the putsch. The broad crackdown has gone beyond the alleged perpetrators, however, and has ensnared journalists, academics, judges and civil servants. |
| Turkey has yet to come to terms with the coup attempt. The country has grown more polarised in recent months as fears grow over Erdoğan’s consolidation of power. A referendum that vastly expanded his powers was narrowly approved in April ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections expected in 2019. | Turkey has yet to come to terms with the coup attempt. The country has grown more polarised in recent months as fears grow over Erdoğan’s consolidation of power. A referendum that vastly expanded his powers was narrowly approved in April ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections expected in 2019. |
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