First Turkey coup suspects go on trial in Istanbul

Twenty-nine police officers accused of seeking to overthrow the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last July Twenty-nine Turkish police have gone on trial in Istanbul charged with involvement in last July's attempted coup, the city's first trial of alleged plotters in the massive crackdown that followed the failed bid to oust president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. With 41,000 coup suspects under arrest and the country still in a state of emergency, the trials of the accused are expected to be the mos...