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  • Turkey suspends generals linked to alleged coup plot

    11/25/2010 5:31:01 PM PST · by markomalley · 6 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 11/25/2010
    Turkey has suspended two generals and an admiral linked to an alleged plot to stage a military coup, according to reports. The three were named in the investigation of an alleged plan to oust the government led by the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), newspapers said, adding it was the first time the government had suspended serving officers. The trial of around 200 members of the military implicated in the 2003 plot is expected to start December 16. Conspirators are accused of planning attacks on mosques and to provoke tension with neighbour Greece, hoping to trigger instability and setting...
  • Democracy in Turkey

    07/24/2011 1:39:26 PM PDT · by a_Turk · 19 replies
    The National Interest ^ | February 11, 2011 | Dani Rodrik
    Dani Rodrik has just returned from Turkey, shunned while defending his father-in-law, the main defendant in the military coup plot case. The Harvard professor explains his take. IN DECEMBER I traveled to Turkey with my wife and young son, as we do every year during winter break. This time, though, we had more than visiting family and friends in mind. We were on a mission to demonstrate that what many have called the trial of the century in Turkey is in fact a sham built on fabricated evidence. Nearly two hundred Turkish military officers stand accused of having plotted a...