TURKEY: A former Turkish army captain suspected of involvement in the killing of a senior judge by a suspected Islamist is under police guard in an Istanbul hospital following an apparent suicide attempt.
Nine people have already been held in connection with the killing, which happened when an Islamist lawyer burst into a meeting at the Turkish Council of State on Wednesday.
Four judges were also injured in the shooting.
Police sources say the suspected gunman telephoned the former army officer several times before the shooting.
The attack has led to a new confrontation between the Islamist-leaning government and the secularist establishment, represented mainly by the military, over the role of religion in Turkey.
Large, angry crowds pushed and booed ministers of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the funeral of judge Mustafa Ozbilgin in Ankara on Thursday.
The AKP has often clashed with the secularist establishment over the headscarf ban, restrictions on religious education and the use of alcohol. Secularists accuse the AKP of having a hidden Islamist agenda, but the ruling party denies this.
Mr Erdogan, who said the killing was a "deep conspiracy", has rebuked Gen Hilmi Ozkok, chief of the army general staff, for calling on Turks to keep up their demonstrations in defence of secularism following the judge's killing.