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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... and social leaders, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, former Chief of General Staff Yasar Buyukanit and Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. It was through these assassinations and other types of destabilizing attacks that the group hoped to create the chaos necessary to allow the military to launch a coup in 2009 on the basis that it was bringing order back to society,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... carrying out assassinations of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, former Chief of General Staff Yasar Buyukanit and Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Suspects on trial include a retired general, the leader of the Workers' Party, journalists and writers. Protesters demonstrated outside the court in the Silviri district of Istanbul on Monday, claiming that the arrests and the...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
The group is also accused of planning to assassinate several important people, among them Erdogan, former army chief Yasar Buyukanit, 2006 Nobel literature laureate Orhan Pamuk, and Osman Baydemir, the mayor of Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast that sits at the heart of a 24-year armed Kurdish insurgency.
