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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Thousands March in Ankara to Protest Direction of Ergenekon Inquiry

"Thousands March in Ankara to Protest Direction of Ergenekon Inquiry

The Istanbul daily Cumhuriyet is reporting that 'tens of thousands' of individuals marched to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as part of an organized protest against the path that the Ergenekon investigation has taken (an AP story estimated the crowd at 5000). Meanwhile, Deniz Baykal, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, has denounced the Ergenekon inquiry as 'a political trial, not a legal one.'"

More:Jim Meyer's Borderlands: Thousands March in Ankara to Protest Direction of Ergenekon Inquiry