"Turkey ‘coup leader’ jailed, journalists targeted
(AFP)
15 February 2011,
ISTANBUL — The alleged mastermind of a 2003 plot to topple Turkey’s government was jailed Monday pending trial as police targeted opposition journalists in a separate coup probe, Anatolia news agency reported.
Retired general Cetin Dogan turned himself in after a court ruled Friday that 163 of 196 acting and retired soldiers, on trial since December over an alleged plan to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government, should be kept in jail while the trial proceeds, Anatolia said. "
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