Monday, March 16, 2009
Coup Plot Thickens in Istanbul
Christopher Torchia ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISTANBUL
Excerpt: The allegations in Turkey's biggest legal case are the stuff of a dark thriller - mysterious murders, hit lists, stashed grenades, a plot to topple the government and, behind it all, a network of conspirators with links to the state as well as organized crime.
The arrests of 219 people in a sweeping, two-year investigation is part of a struggle for control in Turkey, where an elected government run by pious Muslims is undermining military-backed elites that owned the country after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a war hero, created a secular state out of chaos in 1923.Sphere: Related Content
Monday, March 16, 2009
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