ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A group of Turkish football fans have been charged with trying to overthrow their government during mass street protests in 2013, in a case dismissed as a farce by opposition MPs and defence lawyers.
Prosecutors said they were seeking life sentences for 35 people, most of them members of a supporters' club of major Istanbul team Besiktas, according to an indictment accepted by a court late on Thursday.
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