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Turkey's Ergenekon affair: ‘A way of thinking on trial’ | Presseurop.eu: European news, cartoons and press reviews

Turkey's Ergenekon affair: ‘A way of thinking on trial’
6 August 2013

On August 5, a court in Silivri near Istanbul delivered its verdict in the Ergenekon case, which the government claimed was a nationalist conspiracy to overthrow Recep Tayyp Erdoğan's Islamo-Conservative government in the 2000s. The decision is as controversial as it is significant in setting a new landmark, concludes the Turkish press.

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