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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters You Witness News Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Turkish police detain 40 in coup probe Wed Jan 7, 2009 8:17am EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained about 40 people including three retired generals on Wednesday, media said, widening an investigation into an alleged plot to topple EU aspirant Turkey's Islamist-rooted AK Party government. Eighty-six people, including retired army officers, politicians and lawyers, are on trial for allegedly being part of a right-wing group in a case that has shattered taboos by opening the powerful military to judicial investigation. Critics of the ruling AK Party say Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government is using the case as revenge for court moves by the secular establishment last year to outlaw the party for anti-secular activities. The AK Party denies any link. The Anatolian state news agency said the police operation was launched in six provinces, including Ankara and Istanbul, after an Istanbul court ordered the detentions as well as searches of the suspects' homes and workplaces. The retired generals were Kemal Yavuz, Erdal Senel and Tuncer Kilinc, a former chairman of the National Security Council. Also detained was Kemal Guruz, a former chairman of the staunchly secular High Board of Education, which oversees universities. A former police chief was also held. Fuelling charges the AK Party is launching a witch hunt against opponents, police in the capital Ankara searched the home of a former prosecutor known for his anti-government views. Sabih Kanadoglu, who has accused the government of pushing the country toward a "religious dictatorship," was behind a court decision that prevented parliament from electing Abdullah Gul as president in 2007. He was later elected in a referendum. Financial markets, awaiting developments on an expected IMF agreement to help Turkey weather the global financial crisis, largely ignored news of the arrests. The defendants in the coup plot case, which has added to political uncertainty, are accused of planning assassinations and bombings to sow chaos and force the military to step in. The military, which has unseated four governments in the last 50 years and views itself as the guarantor of Turkey's secular order, denies any link to the group, known as Ergenekon. Police in Ankara and Istanbul declined to comment. Last month, Turkey's top appeals court ordered that a trial over the 2006 killing of a top judge in Ankara be merged with the Ergenekon trial, for which hearings are being held daily and which is expected to take months to complete. Some analysts say the Ergenekon case is part of a proxy war between the AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam, and secularists played out in courts. 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