TURKEY:Επιχείρηση "Βαριοπούλα"-Η Δίκη. First day at court ...
... According to the Sledgehammer allegations , the military planned drastic measures to foment unrest in the country in order to remove the AKP from power. Those measures included bombing two major mosques in Istanbul, staging an assault on a military museum by people disguised as religious extremists and raising tension with Greece by attacking a Turkish plane and blaming it on the Aegean neighbor. Turkey's 'Sledgehammer' plot has its day in court The alleged coup plot codenamed “Balyoz” (Sledgehammer ) had its first day at court Thursday, a year after documents pertaining to the purported plan were first published by a Turkish daily. The first hearing in the case concluded with the defendants making a plea to have the new judge in the case refused. The previous judge dealing with the case was reassigned Tuesday. The next hearing will be held Dec. 28. Out of the 196 suspects, 186 appeared at the courtroom at Istanbul’s Silivri Prison for the first he