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The move by prosecutors to... Email Print Related News Analysis: Peep videos may gift Turkey's Erdogan super-majority 11:22am EDT Analysis & Opinion WITNESS: An evening with Ratko Mladic A tale of two rape charges Related Topics World » Turkey » Nilgul Dogan, wife of retired General Cetin Dogan, poses in front of her husband's election campaign banner at the campaign office in Istanbul May 25, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Murad Sezer ISTANBUL | Fri May 27, 2011 11:23am EDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Five serving generals, two colonels and an admiral appeared in an Istanbul court on Friday for questioning over an alleged 2003 plot to unseat the government of Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. The move by prosecutors to call such senior serving officers marked an escalation in a case that has so far led to nearly 200 serving and retired officers being charged of links to an alleged conspiracy, dubbed "Operation Sledgehammer." Most of the officers charged are being held in prison. Coming a little over two weeks before Turkey votes in a parliamentary election, the latest development, according to Turkish media, has strained already tense relations between the country's secular top brass and a ruling party whose roots go back to banned Islamist movements. Some television and newspaper reports suggested the armed forces' surprise last-minute cancellation of its largest regular exercises in the Aegean region this week was a reaction to the decision to summon the generals for questioning. An armed forces official said they were canceled for purely military reasons, while political leaders have declined comment. The most senior officer among those called by prosecutors to answer questions was General Bilgin Balanli, commander of the military academies. Their questioning follows the seizure of fresh documents at a retired colonel's house. By coincidence on Friday, Erdogan visited the home town of Adnan Menderes, the prime minister who was ousted in a military coup on May 27, 1960 and was subsequently executed. The military has overthrown three elected governments since 1960, and forced a coalition led by an Islamist party to quit in 1997, in an event that led to Erdogan and other leaders of banned religious parties to form the AK Party. Opinion polls show Erdogan's AK set to win a third consecutive term of single party rule when Turkey votes on June 12, having first swept to power in 2002. Credited with overseeing a period of unprecedented prosperity, Erdogan aims to introduce a new constitution, to replace one drafted under military tutelage following a coup in 1980. His critics fear the new charter will be in the mold of the AK, though Erdogan says it should strengthen democracy. Most of the defendants in the Sledgehammer case, which broke wide open more than a year ago, are currently being detained at Silivri jail, just over an hour's drive outside Istanbul. The most senior among them is retired General Cetin Dogan, former head of the prestigious First Army, who along with several other officers and journalists caught up in other conspiracy probes, is campaigning to win a seat in parliament. Defendants in the Sledgehammer case say the documents presented by the prosecution were part of a war game scenario used in a military seminar and that other documents were faked. (Writing by Daren Butler and Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Jon Hemming) World Turkey Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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