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86 On Trial In Turkish Coup Case -- International Herald Tribune
SILIVRI, Turkey: One of the most sensational public trials in Turkish history began on Monday when a court started hearing a case against 86 people, including retired army generals, journalists, and a university rector, charged with assassinations and bomb attacks in a plot to topple the government.
Those charged were accused of being members of an illegal ultranationalist network, known as Ergenekon. Prosecutors claim that the organization's members, which allegedly included former military officers as well as ordinary criminals, used violence to try to manufacture chaos in society and weaken support for the government, thus paving the way for a military coup.
The charges against the group, unveiled this summer in a 2,455-page indictment, include the murders of a judge, a priest, a journalist, three workers of a Christian publishing house, and the bombing of a newspaper. The group is also charged with plotting to kill public figures, including Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist who won the Nobel prize.
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My Comment: Secular and Islamist forces are at work here. Each wanting the same thing .... an adoption of their agenda for Turkey to follow.