Turkey's Former Military Chief Jailed For Life And Dozens Sentenced To Up To 50 Years For Plotting To Overthrow Prime Minister -- Daily Mail
* Retired General Ilker Basbug most high profile of scores of defendants in the so-called Ergenekon plot
* Defendants accused of trying to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government in 2002
* Basbug and 16 others sentenced to life in prison and 60 others jailed for up to 47 years
* Group accused of plotting high-profile attacks that prosecutors said were aimed at causing chaos in Turkey to prepare the way for a military coup
Turkey's former military chief has been jailed for life for plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
Retired General Ilker Basbug was one of scores of defendants that included politicians, journalists and officers accused of being part of the so-called Ergenekon plot.
Today's verdicts are the culmination of five years of trials where prosecutors accused defendants of trying to organise high-profile attacks across Turkey and prepare the way for a military coup soon after Erdogan's government came to power in 2002.
The landmark case has become central in tensions between Turkey's secular elite and the Prime Minister's Islamic-orientated Justice and Development Party.
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