READ MORE: PressTV - Turkey to make arrests over coup plot: "Police arrested 133 suspects, including former Air Forces Commander Gen. Halil Ibrahim Firtina and former Naval Forces Commander Adm. Ozden Ornek in the courthouse on Friday.
The court issued arrest warrants for about 30 other suspects that did not attend the trial, including former first Army head retired Gen. Cetin Dogan, Turkish news daily Sunday's Zaman reported.
In total, 196 officers are on trial, with about three-quarters of them still serving, most of whom have been in and out of detention in the past year.
The remaining 29 are expected to surrender themselves at a courthouse in Istanbul on Monday, officials said.
The suspects are accused of a failed attempt to destroy Parliament and overthrow Erdogan's government under Sledgehammer' coup plot in 2003."
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