| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/08/08, 8:39 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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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. But by the time it finished on Monday, the trial had been discredited because the prosecution failed to present irrefutable evidence and
because of ever new waves of arrests -- not just of military members but of opposition parliamentarians, journalists and academics as well.
The Ergenekon network, named after a mythical Central Asian valley where a wolf saved Turks from annihilation, is said to have been linked to the "Deep State," militant secularists in the establishment who are believed to have influenced political life in Turkey for decades.
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