Islamic Radical to Be Tried for Treason
A court charged an Islamic radical with treason for allegedly masterminding a failed 1998 plot to crash an airplane into the mausoleum of the founder of secular Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.
Metin Kaplan was returned to Istanbul late Tuesday, hours after a court in his longtime home of Germany approved his extradition.
His group, the Caliphate State, calls for the overthrow of Turkey’s secular government to replace it with an Islamic state.
Turkish authorities say the plot was foiled when Turkish police arrested 23 suspected members of Kaplan’s group. Kaplan has denied the charges.
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