Turkish court to announce verdicts in Ergenekon case
A Turkish court will pass judgment on Monday on nearly 300 defendants accused of plotting to topple the government in a battleground case between Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey's secularist establishment.
Security forces set up barricades around the courthouse in the Silivri jail complex to tighten security after the defendants' supporters vowed to hold a demonstration against the five-year trial that has exposed deep divisions in Turkish society. Prosecutors say an alleged network of secular arch-nationalists, code-named Ergenekon, pursued extra-judicial killings and bombings in order to trigger a military coup. (Reuters)
