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TURKISH PARTY LEADER CHARGED OVER ALLEGED TERROR PLOT
Gulf News
March 24 2008
United Arab Emirates
Ankara: The leader of one of Turkey's political parties has been
charged with involvement in an alleged plot to stir up civil unrest
and prompt a military coup.
Dogu Perincek, the leader of a small leftist political party is part
of a shadowy network of extreme nationalists who allegedly want to
topple the Islamic-rooted government.
The court in Istanbul Monday charged Dogu Perincek with "being a senior
official of a terrorist organization and obtaining and possessing
classified documents."
Perincek is the leader of the Turkish Workers' Party which won a tiny
fraction of the votes in general elections last summer.
In 2007, a Swiss court convicted Perincek of racism for denying,
during trips to Switzerland, that the mass killing of Armenians in
the early 20th century was genocide.
Perincek is among several alleged suspects detained by police for
interrogation.
Gulf News
March 24 2008
United Arab Emirates
Ankara: The leader of one of Turkey's political parties has been
charged with involvement in an alleged plot to stir up civil unrest
and prompt a military coup.
Dogu Perincek, the leader of a small leftist political party is part
of a shadowy network of extreme nationalists who allegedly want to
topple the Islamic-rooted government.
The court in Istanbul Monday charged Dogu Perincek with "being a senior
official of a terrorist organization and obtaining and possessing
classified documents."
Perincek is the leader of the Turkish Workers' Party which won a tiny
fraction of the votes in general elections last summer.
In 2007, a Swiss court convicted Perincek of racism for denying,
during trips to Switzerland, that the mass killing of Armenians in
the early 20th century was genocide.
Perincek is among several alleged suspects detained by police for
interrogation.