Anatolia said he was expected to be immediately enlisted by the military for obligatory service, Anatolia said.
So this guy's 46, former member of a known terrorist organization, convicted of one murder, one attempted murder, and two (presumably armed) robberies...and the Turkish military actually WANTS him for something? Man, if that doesn't get you a draft exemption, I don't know what would.
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My immediate read was that, if they can't hold him any longer under the criminal law, this is an end-run to keep him under the government's control and monitoring.