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Turkey scraps coup plot courts in battle over judiciary | Reuters

Turkey scraps coup plot courts in battle over judiciary

By Orhan Coskun

ANKARA Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:21am EST

(Reuters) - Turkish lawmakers on Friday abolished special courts which had convicted hundreds of alleged military coup plotters, as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a new foe he sees as using influence in the judiciary to try to unseat him.

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