The Turkish army's designated chief of staff has been accused of attempts to frustrate Turkey's EU accession by plotting a series of attacks on Kurdish targets designed to spark a nationalist backlash.
A Turkish public prosecutor has accused general Yasar Buyukanit, head of the Turkish land forces, of orchestrating the hand grenade attack on a Kurdish bookshop in the town of Semdinli in the south east of the country, according to media reports.
Parts of the accusations of the pr...
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