{"id":10122,"date":"2026-02-12T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10122\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:46:10","slug":"turkish-court-sentences-talent-manager-to-12-years-over-alleged-coup-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/10122\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish court sentences talent manager to 12 years over alleged coup plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ayse-Barim.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Ays\u0327e Bar\u0131m\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ayse-Barim-696x435.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ayse-Barim-696x435.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ays\u0327e Bar\u0131m\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An \u0130stanbul court on Wednesday sentenced a celebrity talent manager to 12-and-a-half years in prison for aiding an alleged attempt to overthrow the Turkish government during the 2013 Gezi Park protests, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish Minute<\/a> reported, citing the Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Ay\u015fe Bar\u0131m, 55, is not currently in jail. The court did not order her arrest after the verdict, keeping a travel ban in place and citing her health and continuing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul 26th High Criminal Court\u00a0said it first imposed an aggravated life sentence for attempting to overthrow the government, then reduced it to 15 years on the grounds that Bar\u0131m\u2019s role amounted to \u201caiding,\u201d and applied a further reduction to 12 years, 6 months, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u0131m denied the charges and asked for acquittal. \u201cWitness statements are in my favor [and] there is no concrete evidence,\u201d Turkish media quoted her as saying in court, adding that she wanted to undergo further surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u0131m\u2019s lawyer, Deniz Ketenci, argued there was no direct or indirect evidence linking her to the alleged crime and said the case was launched on the basis of claims by an informant.<\/p>\n<p>Another defense lawyer, Sedat \u00d6zyurt, said prosecutors had not shown the required element of force or violence and argued that artists attended the protests on their own initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors alleged Bar\u0131m used well-known actors and artists she represented to help organize and amplify the protests on social media and on the ground. A trial prosecutor had sought aggravated life in an opinion filed ahead of the final hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Gezi protests began in late May 2013 after a small sit-in opposing the redevelopment of Gezi Park, one of central \u0130stanbul\u2019s few green spaces. Police attempts to clear the park helped spark nationwide demonstrations that expanded into broader anger over the government\u2019s handling of dissent, policing and civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u0131m\u2019s case has proceeded in parallel with long-running Gezi prosecutions that include philanthropist Osman Kavala, who is serving an aggravated life sentence in a case tied to the protests. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2019 that Kavala\u2019s detention pursued an ulterior purpose and ordered his release, while the Council of Europe launched infringement proceedings over Turkey\u2019s failure to implement the ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An \u0130stanbul court on Wednesday sentenced a celebrity talent manager to 12-and-a-half years in prison for aiding an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[8026,8010,8011,312,427,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-10122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-attempting-to-overthrow-the-government","9":"tag-ayse-barim","10":"tag-gezi-park-protests","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-justice","13":"tag-stockholm","14":"tag-sweden","15":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}