[lbo-talk] 'Deep state' trial polarises Turkey

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Wed Nov 12 18:53:48 PST 2008


Thursday, 23 October 2008

'Deep state' trial polarises Turkey http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7684578.stm

By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Istanbul

Nationalists see the Ergenekon trial as a travesty of justice

The so-called Ergenekon case is huge, both in the size of the prosecutor's indictment and its political significance.

Even excluding its many appendices, the indictment is a massive 2,455 pages-long. It describes an incredible-sounding plot linking lawyers, academics, a mafia man, a hitman and former members of the military, in an alleged ultra-nationalist conspiracy to topple Turkey's Islamist-rooted government. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7684578.stm



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