ISTANBUL, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Turkish court on Monday sentenced the main suspect of a mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day in 2017 to 40 life sentences, local media reported.
Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was handed down 40 separate aggravated life sentences without parole for deliberate murder and attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, according to the state-run Anadolu agency.
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