 General Ilker Basbug, former Chief of the Turkish General Staff, has been jailed for attempting a coup, Euronews reports.
| Sure is a lot of coup-plotting in the Ottoman Empire since Erdogan took over... |
| Some of it even real. After all, the army was originally tasked to protect the secular nature of modern Turkey. |
| Then they'd better stop plotting and start acting. Erdogan has plans and he's going forward... |
Basbug was the first Turkish military figure to be tried by a civil court and is the first such high-ranking general under trial. Basbug resigned in 2010 as one of the suspects in the Besictas District of Istanbul, accused of discrediting the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opening websites for the purpose.
Hundreds of people have been arrested in Turkey, including former military officers, politicians and journalists, suspected of anti-government activities. The prosecutors of Ankara demanded former Turkish President Kenan Evren, aged 94, be imprisoned for life for the military coup in September 1980.
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