Agence France-PresseMarch 6, 2013 16:45
A retired general was arrested on Wednesday as part of a probe into the bloodless coup of 1997 that overthrew an Islamist-led government in Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Izzettin Iyigun, the former chief of ground forces training command, was jailed hours after he was summoned to testify over the February 28, 1997 coup at an Ankara court.
Iyigun was sent to a high-security prison in Ankara's Sincan district, the same place where the army command ordered tanks to roll out onto the streets in a thinly veiled threat to then-prime minister Necmettin Erbakan.
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