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Turkey Sentences 3 to Death for Terrorism

A Turkish court sentenced three leftist militants to death today the first such judgment since Parliament passed a law lifting the death penalty for most crimes. The sentences, by a state security court in the western city of Izmir, were levied against members of an urban guerrilla group, Revolutionary People&#039s Liberation Party-Front, for trying to subvert the constitutional order and shooting dead a Turkish soldier in Denizli Province in 1998. They were convicted of acts of terror. Full Story