Turkey wants Greece to try 8 rogue soldiers again - minister

  27 January 2017    Read: 924
Turkey wants Greece to try 8 rogue soldiers again - minister
Turkey has demanded the retrial of eight rogue soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup last year, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.
“We demanded that the eight soldiers be tried again. This is a political decision, Greece is protecting and hosting coup plotters,” Cavusoglu told state broadcaster TRT Haber.

Greece’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against extraditing the eight soldiers, who have sought political asylum, saying they feared for their lives in Turkey, which alleges they were involved in the coup attempt and branded them traitors.

/Reuters/

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