#turkey abolishes special #military_tribunals
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18733
Turkey’s parliament passed a law on Friday abolishing specially appointed courts that have convicted hundreds of military officers for coup plotting. The conciliatory move toward the military, proposed by the Islamic-rooted ruling party, comes as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is grappling with a high-level corruption scandal that has implicated his entourage and dragged down some of his ministers. read more