World from Berlin: Erdogan's 'Political Show Trial'
Turkey's mammoth five-year trial of 275 defendants in the alleged "Ergenekon" coup conspiracy failed to deliver convincing evidence. It will deepen divisions in Turkish society, write German commentators.
When it began in 2008, Turkey's trial of the so-called "Ergenekon" network of alleged ultra-nationalist conspirators plotting to military coup with assassinations and murders won praise as an important move to curtail the military and strengthen the rule of law.
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