Turkey finds 39 leftists guilty after 28-year trial

A trial in Turkey, which has lasted nearly 28 years, has finally concluded.

A panel of judges found 39 of the 1,223 defendants guilty of trying to topple the government and constitution, and sentenced them to life imprisonment.

The charges against other defendants were dropped because of the time that had elapsed.

They were all alleged members of an extreme left-wing organisation, Dev-Sol, who were arrested in the wake of the country's 1980 military coup.