21 May 2013

Turkish court tries apartheid Israeli regime military officials in absentia

Press TV: The third hearing of the Mavi Marmara trial was held at Caglayan Courthouse in Istanbul on Sunday. The passengers of the flotilla as well as relatives and lawyers of the slain activists from 37 different countries attended the trial. There are 490 victims in the case, including flotilla passengers and relatives of the martyrs. The defendants who are tried as "fugitive suspects" include former Israeli Military Chief of General Staff Gen. Gavriel Ashkenazi, Naval Forces commander Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom, Israel's military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin and Air Forces Intelligence head Brig. Gen. Avishai Levi.
In the case on trial at the 7th Higher Criminal Court in Istanbul, the plaintiffs demand perpetrators of the violent attack to be sentenced to thousands of years in prison for a variety of serious crimes.  Source

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