An Ankara court on Wednesday sentenced 12 defendants to aggravated life imprisonment and handed down life imprisonment for another 80 in a trial on the 2016 coup attempt. The 19th High Criminal Court handed down the verdict in the final hearing of the trial inside a massive courthouse-prison comple»»»

Turkish police seized smuggled fossils worth $10 million from the home of a jailed cult leader infamous for his anti-evolution views and bizarre female following, state news agency reported on Wednesday.Authorities discovered a total of 879 fossils in raids on two of Adnan Oktar's properties.Oktar,»»»