"Turkish court jails Islamic cleric for life
Mon Jun 20, 2005 05:58 PM ET
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Monday sentenced an Islamist cleric to life imprisonment on charges he plotted to kill members of the country's ruling elite by crashing an explosives-laden plane into a national monument.
Metin Kaplan, dubbed the 'Caliph of Cologne,' was accused of seeking the violent overthrow of Turkey's secular constitution with a 1998 plan to fly the aircraft into the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkish republic, during a national day celebration by the military and political elite. "
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