A Turkish court on Tuesday charged nine people as accomplices to the suicide bombers who carried out attacks against the British consulate and a British bank in Istanbul.
According to The AP, eight were charged with being members of an illegal organization, while one was accused of aiding and abetting an illegal organization. The charges came after several hours of questioning.
The charges came just five days after the bombings of the British consulate and a London-based bank in Istanbul. Fifty-seven people, including the bombers, died in those attacks and the bombings of two synagogues in the city on Nov. 15.
The charges are punishable by up to five years in prison, and no trial date was set.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a televised national address on the eve of the religious holiday ending the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, appealed to Turks to resist terrorism.
"This is a war between justice and cruelty, good and bad, and true and false, it is our right to expect every sensible person to stand by justice, good, and truth in this war," Erdogan stated. (Albawaba.com)
