Turkish actors sentenced to prison

IPN.md

26 May 2025
18:14

Turkish actor Halit Ergenç, best known for his role as Sultan Suleyman in the Turkish TV series “Suleyman the Magnificent”, and actor Rıza Kocaoğlu were convicted by an Istanbul court of perjury, IPN reports.

After several months of legal trial, the court decided to sentence Halit Ergenç – to one year and ten months and Rıza Kocaoğlu – to one year and eight months in prison. They were charged with perjury in the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency reports.

The judges said the sentence is subject to appeal.

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“Putting it under tension allows us to test the operation of the entire route, the protection equipment, the control systems, and the behavior of the installations under real operating conditions. This project is not just about 157 kilometers of power line. It means the possibility of directly transporting energy from Romania to the center of the Republic of Moldova, without the vulnerabilities of the old infrastructure”, declared Dorin Junghietu.

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