Two Turkish Retired Generals charged for plot against Government

by israeli.agent | March 29, 2009 at 12:15 am

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Two retired four star Generals are accused of leading a plot to overturn the Pro-Islamic AKP government. The Generals Sener Eruygur and Hursit Tolon are retired officers continue the pans they devised when they were serving - in 2002-2003. It is known that they are forced to drop the flan for a coup as some other generals did not support them. Nevertheless they continued their efforts to destabilize the AKP government through "external means"

his week's charge sheet names the men prosecutors appear to think organized the plot: Sener Eruygur, a former military police chief, and Hursit Tolon, a former military commander. Both men, who are the highest-ranking military officers to be arrested in Turkey's 62-year history of multi-party democracy, say they are innocent. The pair are both charged with "forming and organizing an armed terror group" and "attempting to remove the government". Mr Eruygur is also charged in connection with the May 2006 murder of a high court judge which triggered the secular backlash against the ruling AK Party that ended in military threats of intervention in April 2007. The extent of both men's opposition to AK Party rule became clear in 2007, when a Turkish magazine published extracts from diaries allegedly written by an admiral detailing their role in two failed coup attempts in 2004.