Right-wing terror trial
i NZPA-Reuter^ 7 Ankara Alpaslan Turkes, an ultra- ; Right-wing former colonel i who was one of Turkey’s i most powerful politicians a I year ago. will go on trial for ' his life in Ankara today 1 charged with trying to over- ; throw the State by force. 1 Turkes, aged 64, who was I twice Deputy Prime Minister
during the 19705, faces a martial-law court along with 587 officials and supporters of his Nationalist Movement Party. The prosecutor has demanded the death penalty for Turkes and 219 others. The indictment against Turkes, which covers more
than 900 pages, catalogues Right-wing violence and alleges that there was a nationwide conspiracy to seize power. It charges that he infiltrated men into Government and education organisations and set up armed cells throughout the country.
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