Turkish Court Jails 3 for Life Over Bombing of German Tourists

Date: 31 January 2018 - 21:54

News ID: ۴۹۵۶۸

ISTANBUL (Dispatches) – A Turkish court sentenced three people to multiple life sentences on Wednesday in connection with a bombing that killed 12 German tourists in Istanbul two years ago.
A bomber, Saudi-born Syrian Nabil Fadli, killed the tourists when he blew himself up in Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s historic heart, on Jan. 12, 2016. Turkish authorities blamed the Daesh terrorist group for the attack.
Two Syrians, Atala el-Hasan el-Mayyup and Fevzi Muhammed Ali, and a Turkish man, Halil Dervis, were found guilty of aiding murder, trying to overthrow the government and constitution, membership of a terrorist organization and committing crimes in the name of an armed terrorist organization.