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Istanbul/Ankara, 5 August
Turkey’s former armed forces chief has been jailed for life for plotting to overthrow the government, after five years of trials involving officers, lawyers, writers and journalists.
General Ilker Basbug was among dozens of people convicted of involvement in the so-called Ergenekon plot.
Critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have accused him of staging show trials to eliminate his enemies.His supporters said the trials have pushed the military out of politics.
Twenty one people have been acquitted and some 40 convicted so far, including at least one journalist and a police chief.
Gen. Basbug, who led the military between 2008 and 2010, had rejected all the charges against him.
The plot allegedly aimed to topple the government led by Mr Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The defendants faced charges ranging from membership of Ergenekon, an alleged underground terrorist network, to illegally possessing weapons and instigating an armed uprising against the AKP. Prosecutors had demanded life imprisonment for Gen Basbug and 63 others, including nine other generals.
The court is sitting at the high-security Silivri prison complex, west of Istanbul, where the general is being held. Hundreds of riot police fired tear gas to disperse some 1,000 protesters who were marching outside the court. The case is being seen as a key test in Mr Erdogan’s showdown with secularist and military opponents.
Since he came to power in 2002, hundreds of military officers – serving or retired – have been arrested.
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