YNET NEWS: Turkish Authorities say at least 30,000 protesters gathered in downtown Ankara on Sunday to protest the arrests of university professors and other secularists accused of involvement in an alleged plot to topple the Islamic-rooted government.
Authorities recently charged more than 200 people as part of the investigation into the alleged secularist conspiracy to topple Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. Protesters, who are waving Turkish flags and carrying posters of late leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, chanting: "We are soldiers of Ataturk!" will later march to the mausoleum of Turkey's first secular leader. [Source: YNet News] AP | Sunday, May 17, 2009
