Turkey rocked by coup allegations

Turkey’s rocky road towards EU membership took another turn on Monday with the publication of a report into an alleged coup, Le Figaro reports.

The report accuses 86 ultranationalists, including several retired army generals, of fomenting violence in Turkey in order to overthrow the Muslim-led government.

The paper notes that the bitter battle between the pro-European but Muslim-dominated government and the nationalists who remain faithful to Ataturk’s secular state has been escalating in recent months.

The ruling party is facing dissolution for breaking Turkey’s secular constitution, while the court case against the coup leaders is seen by some as a settling of accounts by the government.

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