More Turkish generals quizzed in coup probe: report

Turkish prosecutors will on Wednesday question some of the suspects arrested over an alleged military coup plot, as US and European Union officials expressed concern over the affair.The accused will also be brought before a judge to face possible charges over the alleged plot, which investigators say was designed to topple the Islamist-rooted government, the Anatolia news agency reported.Police detained more than 40 suspects Monday over a purported plan codenamed "Operation Sledgehammer" which dated back to 2003.

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.

A Turkish court charged eight more officers with plotting to topple the Islamist-rooted government in 2003, taking the number of those under investigation to 20, Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.Prosecutors questioned the eight suspects, three of them retired, for several hours before remanding them in custody in military and civilian prisons, media reports said.The Istanbul court handling the probe ruled Wednesday that 12 suspects, also questioned by prosecutors earlier, should be kept in jail pending trial, Anatolia news agency reported.

A Turkish court ordered seven suspects to be remanded in custody Wednesday as part of a probe into an alleged plot against the Islamist-rooted government in 2003, the Anatolia news agency reported.The two active-duty admirals, two retired admirals, a retired one-star general and two retired colonels were among around 50 military figures detained by police Monday.

Seven suspects were remanded in custody Wednesday over an alleged coup plot against Turkey's Islamist-rooted government in 2003, as part of a probe that has fanned tensions in the polarised country.An Istanbul court ruled the suspects -- two active-duty admirals, two retired admirals, a retired one-star general and two retired colonels -- should be kept in jail pending trial, Anatolia news agency reported.

Three former Turkish military chiefs testified Saturday over an alleged plot to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government, Anatolia news agency reported.The former heads of the army, the air force and the navy, respectively Aytac Yalman, Ibrahim Firtina and Ozden Ornek, gave evidence for several hours to prosecutors on the so-called Ergenekon network.Ergenekon is a nationalist-secularist group which allegedly planned to plunge Turkey into political chaos by assassinating prominent figures, paving the way for a coup.

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.

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.