"196 to face coup plot trial in Turkey
(AFP)
20 July 2010,
ISTANBUL — Turkish prosecutors have indicted 196 people, including several former senior officers, over accusations they plotted a coup against the Islamist-rooted government, reports said on Monday.
According to the indictment cited by the Anatolia news agency, the plan was drawn up at the Istanbul base of the First Army shortly after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002."
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