TURKEY-JUSTICE-POLICE-RIGHTS-DEMO

TURKEY-JUSTICE-POLICE-RIGHTS-DEMO

A protestor hold up a lit firework against Turkish police at Kadikoy in Istanbul on January 21, 2015 after the judgement of two Turkish police sparked an uproar. Two Turkish police officers were jailed for at least 10 years over the killing of a teenage protestor during 2013 demonstrations against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The sentences were far lower than the life imprisonment demanded by prosecutors. The court in the central city of Kayseri sentenced Mevlut Saldogan to 10 years and 10 months in prison and fellow police officer Yalcin Akbulut to 10 years for the killing of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, 19, in the western city of Eskisehir on June 2, 2013. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC