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Sat 04 Apr 2009Major protest in Turkey over 'coup' plot
Thousands of people demonstrated in central Ankara on Saturday in protest at a widening investigation into an alleged coup plot, seen by critics as a crackdown on the government's opponents.
The protests took place at the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, after a wave of detentions in the investigation continued this week, to include a university head and an anti-government media executive.
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