May 28, 2012
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Plot colonel firm on hunger strike
4 September 2010 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Col. Dursun Çiçek, who is currently in prison on coup charges, has agreed to drink some water, his lawyer announced on Friday, but still refuses to eat. The colonel made public his decision to go on a hunger strike on Sept. 1 after his appeal for release from prison was rejected by an İstanbul court. He said he will continue the strike until the “judicial murder” being committed upon him is ended.
Çiçek was arrested in April after the exposure of a suspected military plan aimed at overthrowing the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. The colonel’s signature appears on the plan. The document details a Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) plan to destroy the image of the government and the faith-based Gülen movement in the eyes of the public, to play down the Ergenekon investigation and to garner support for members of the military as part of an investigation into Ergenekon. Ergenekon is a clandestine criminal organization accused of working to topple the government.
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