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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Turkish police detain army officers, journalists on suspicions of planning coup - Bulgaria and the World news

"Turkish police detain army officers, journalists on suspicions of planning coup
18:24 Tue 01 Jul 2008 - Alex Bivol

Turkish police has detained 20 people as part of an investigation into an alleged planned military coup against the government, daily Hurriyet reported on July 1.

The arrests come on the same day that chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya was due to present his case in the suit filed with the Turkish constitutional court, asking for the country's ruling Justice and Development (AK) party to be disbanded and a number of its top officials to be banned from politics for a period of five years."

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