The Greek Council of State decided on Wednesday to provide a right of asylum to former soldiers who had fled Turkey during the defeated coup attempt on July 15, 2016.<\/p>\n
Greece’s supreme administrative court evaluated Greek government’s objection to the right of asylum given by the Greek Asylum Commission to Suleyman Ozkaynakci, one of former Turkish soldiers.<\/p>\n
The decision set a precedent for the other seven ex-soldiers; their right of asylum was also approved.<\/p>\n
A Greek asylum committee last December accepted the petition of Ozkaynakci, but later the Greek government raised objections.<\/p>\n
Ozkaynakci was released briefly after being granted asylum but was arrested again in light of the government\u2019s objections.<\/p>\n
Ruling on the objection, the Greek Council of State on April 19 ordered his release under strict control until the results of the asylum petitions of all eight suspected coup-plotters are resolved.<\/p>\n
Ahmet Guzel, a second ex-Turkish soldier suspected of involvement in the July 2016 defeated coup, was also released earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Following Wednesday’s decision, two other former Turkish soldiers, whose maximum detention period of 18 months expired, were also released. They are being kept in a house outside of Athens with Guzel and Ozkaymakci, according to local media.<\/p>\n
The remaining four soldiers are also to be released at the end of the month as their detention period will expire, local media reported.<\/p>\n
The eight former soldiers will reportedly be able to travel within Europe after being released.<\/p>\n
The eight former Turkish servicemen fled to Greece a day after the defeated 2016 Turkish coup. They are accused by Turkish authorities of involvement in the coup and being members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).<\/p>\n
FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup on July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greek Council of State decides to provide right of asylum to suspected putschist ex-soldiers who fled Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,163,14],"tags":[77977,77978],"class_list":["post-60932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-recommendations","category-world","tag-greek-council","tag-turkish-putschists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}