Egypt has not had a coup, merely a return to the 1950s

Five generals and an admiral were among a group of soldiers who appeared before prosecutors Friday to answer questions over an alleged 2003 coup plot, Anatolia news agency reported.They were summoned as part of an expanding probe into "Operation Sledgehammer", an alleged plan to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government, which has already landed some 200 soldiers in court and fanned political tensions in Turkey, Anatolia said.There were conflicting reports about how many soldiers in total had been summoned for questioning.

Turkish courts on Friday ordered the release from jail of three retired generals and a prosecutor who were allegedly involved in separate plots to topple the government, Anatolia news agency said.The two cases against the suspects are at the centre of simmering tensions pitting the Islamist-rooted government against the judicial elite and the army over several alleged coup plans hatched by secularist forces.

An Istanbul court Friday annulled an arrest warrant issued against 102 Turkish officers, including 25 serving generals and admirals, over an alleged 2003 coup plot, Anatolia news agency reported.The court accepted the request for the annulment of the warrant filed by the officers' lawyers, Anatolia reported without providing details of the judge's decision.The warrant was issued against the officers on July 23 after the discovery of an alleged coup plan codenamed Operation Sledgehammer.

After World War II essentially the only significantly large industrial base was in the USA. The USA was emerging as a national power in the early 1900′s. The wake of World War I and World War II left a very odd situation. You had many formerly very rich countries that were devastated and one rich country that wasn’t. Devastation is not easy to overcome in even 20 years. So for a good 2 decades the USA got wealthier and wealthier even while other formerly rich countries were re-developing there countries rapidly.

Turkey's military on Wednesday blocked the promotions of generals and admirals indicted over an alleged 2003 coup plot, avoiding a confrontation with the government, a report said.The chiefs of staff sent the government a list of promotions after an annual meeting, excluding 11 senior officers who are facing charges of conspiring to topple the Islamist-rooted administration, the NTV news channel said.

A Turkish court issued an arrest warrant Friday for 102 suspects, among them senior military figures, charged over an alleged 2003 coup plan, media reports said.The court also set the first hearing in the high-profile case for December 16 in a prison complex near Istanbul, said judge Davut Bedir as he announced the warrant, Anatolia news agency reported.Two senior serving admirals and three retired generals were among the suspects included on the warrant, according to the NTV news channel.

A Turkish court freed three top-level suspects in an alleged 2003 military coup plot hours after the army chief and civilian leadership pledged to resolve tensions sparked by the probe.It was not immediately clear whether the retired generals and admiral would face trial over the plot but the prosecutor in charge said he had released two of them because there was no risk they would flee abroad.