Sledgehammer (alleged coup plan)

Operation Sledgehammer (Turkish: Balyoz Harekâtı) is the name of an alleged Turkish secularist military coup plan dating back to 2003, in response to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) gaining office. Claims of the plot first surfaced in the liberal Taraf newspaper, which was passed documents detailing plans to bomb two Istanbul mosques and accuse Greece of shooting down a Turkish aircraft over the Aegean Sea.

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