"Turkish court tries Islamic militant for treason
Caliphate State' seeks overthrow of secular gov't
Published on 2006-04-29 02:03 (KST)
ISTANBUL, Turkey
A court on Friday began retrying an Islamic militant accused of attempting to overthrow Turkey's secular regime and planning to crash a plane into the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, a lawyer said.
Metin Kaplan, who was extradited from Germany, was last year sentenced to life in prison for attempting 'to overturn the constitutional order'--a charge that amounts to treason. But an appeals court overturned that decision in November, saying the investigation was insufficient and there were procedural errors in the first trial."
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