"EU eyes on Turkey as officers' trial starts
NICHOLAS BIRCH IN ISTANBUL
TWO Turkish military intelligence officers appeared in court in the southern city of Van yesterday facing life sentences in a case seen as a test of the country's worthiness to join the European Union while the army dominates the political system.
Together with a Kurdish separatist turned informer, the officers were arrested last November seconds after a grenade exploded in a bookshop in Semdinli, a town close to Iraq, killing one man."
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