BBC NEWS | Europe | Seven jailed for Turkey bombings: "A court in Turkey has sentenced seven people to life in prison for the 2003 Istanbul bombings which killed 58 people including the UK consul-general.
A Syrian, Loa'i al-Saqa, was jailed for masterminding and securing finance for the attacks on the UK consulate, two synagogues and an HSBC bank branch.
The remaining six were Turkish citizens convicted of organising the bombings.
A total of 74 people were tried - many received lighter sentences and 26 of them were acquitted.
As the verdicts were read out to a packed courtroom, several defendants shouted 'God is great'.
The judge ruled that five of those sentenced to life, including Saqa, should not be allowed to benefit from any sentence reductions or amnesties.
The court was told that a group of men, calling themselves Warriors for Islam, came together to plan the attacks on the direct orders of Osama Bin Laden."