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Nine more charged, 34 arrested in Turkey's Ergenekon case

12/01/2009

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A court charged nine more people Sunday (January 11th) with alleged ties to the shadowy separatist group Ergenekon, which is suspected of plotting a coup d'etat. Among those charged is a former head of police special forces, Ibrahim Sahin. Police detained another 33 suspects on Sunday in the second such operation in a week. Early Monday, police also arrested prominent journalist Yalcin Kucuk for alleged connections to the case.

Prosecutors, however, ordered the release of ten Ergenekon suspects, including a retired general and a former head of the country's Higher Board of Education, on Sunday. Police had rounded them up on Wednesday with 30 other alleged members of the organisation. A total of 86 alleged Ergenekon members are currently on trial.

In other news Sunday, police seized 20kg of heroin purportedly bound for the European market. Police found the drugs in a truck in the central province of Eskisehir and arrested two alleged traffickers. (Hurriyet, Sabah, Vatan, Radikal, Zaman - 12/01/09; Anadolu news agency, CNN Turk, AFP, AP, Reuters, Xinhua - 11/01/09)

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