Sentencing is part of a trial of 497 suspects in Ankara on the presidential guard’s actions during the attempted coup.
Former president Abdulla Yameen is accused of receiving $1 million of government money through a private company that is now being implicated in a corrupt deal to lease tropical islands for hotel development.
Criminal court in Cairo also hands down sentences, ranging from 10 years to life in prison, to 38 co-defendants over the 2015 killing of Egypt's top prosecutor. Sixteen of the accused have been tried in absentia.
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