In August 2011 the contest between the politicians and generals appeared to end with the 'Sledgehammer' criminal charges being laid against over two hundred suspects (see Posts 33-35). A 2014 BBC report after earlier trials and appeals:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24457491
Today on Twitter a US observer tweeted:One I think Turksih report:http://www.worldbulletin.net/turkey/...tary-coup-caseSledgehammer saga ends as Turkish court acquits all defendants, citing strong suspicion of fake evidence.
Curiously and purely by coincidence attention has been diverted, including the BBC, to two quite different news stories. First a near nation-wide electricity outage:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32130567
Then a siege in Istanbul, where a banned Marxist-Leninist group DHKP-C, have seized a state prosecutor in a court building. News report:http://mashable.com/2015/03/31/prose...bjBrb2xtdF8ifQ
Or the BBC:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32129012
Background reading on this group, suitably Byzantine:http://america.aljazeera.com/article...oodarrows.html
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