Arrests fuel Turkey coup rumblings
A senior Turkish general called for calm yesterday after two prominent retired generals were detained in a widening police investigation into a suspected coup plot against the Government. "Turkey is passing through difficult days. We all have to be acting with more common sense, more carefully and more responsibly," land forces commander General Ilker Basbug, who is the second-most powerful general in the Turkish military, said yesterday. Police detained 21 people on Tuesday as part of an investigation into Ergenekon, a shadowy, ultra-nationalist and hard-line secularist group suspected of planning bombings and assassinations calculated to trigger an army takeover.
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