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Turkey: Reyhanli plotter receives multiple life terms

Plotter of 2013 attack in Turkey's southern Hatay province receive 53 aggravated life terms

Ismet Karakas  | 13.05.2019 - Update : 14.05.2019
Turkey: Reyhanli plotter receives multiple life terms

ANKARA 

Yusuf Nazik, a key plotter of the 2013 attack in Reyhanli district of Turkey's southern Hatay province, was sentenced to 53 aggravated life terms by a court on Monday.

Nazik, 34, has confessed to playing a role in the deadly bombing in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay, southern Turkey which killed 53 people.

Some 912 buildings, 891 workplaces, and 148 vehicles were also heavily damaged in the attack.

He was arrested by Turkish intelligence units in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Sept. 12 last year.

*Writing by Fatih Hafız Mehmet

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