Turkey ex-army chief voices concern at coup war game


Turkey's Chief of Staff General Hilmi Ozkok (L) and his Greek counterpart Admiral Panagiotis Chinofotis (R) attend a welcoming ceremony in Ankara, July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

SILIVRI, Turkey (Reuters) - A former Turkish military chief told a court on Friday that a 2003 war game, which prosecutors say was part of a coup plot, had gone too far in using real politicians' names and that he had raised his concerns at the time.

The war game scenario, played out at a barracks in Istanbul in March 2003, is central to prosecution evidence in a case against 364 officers accused of seeking to topple the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

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