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Ankara: The leader of one of Turkey’s political parties has been charged with involvement in an alleged plot to stir up civil unrest and prompt a military coup.
Dogu Perincek, the leader of a small leftist political party is part of a shadowy network of extreme nationalists who allegedly want to topple the Islamic-rooted government.
The court in Istanbul Monday charged Dogu Perincek with "being a senior official of a terrorist organization and obtaining and possessing classified documents."
Perincek is the leader of the Turkish Workers' Party which won a tiny fraction of the votes in general elections last summer.
In 2007, a Swiss court convicted Perincek of racism for denying, during trips to Switzerland, that the mass killing of Armenians in the early 20th century was genocide.
Perincek is among several alleged suspects detained by police for interrogation.
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