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Monday, November 01, 2010

Bringing Turkey's coup leaders to book

"Bringing Turkey's coup leaders to book
Jonathan Head By Jonathan Head BBC News, Istanbul
Troops seal off main road in Ankara (15 Sept 1980) Hundreds of thousands of people were detained after the coup and many were tortured

For 30 years, the officers who led the last military takeover in Turkey have lived secure in the knowledge that they could not be prosecuted for their actions, thanks to an article inserted in the constitution they drafted in 1982."

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