A Turkish court has accepted indictments against the country's seventh president, Kenan Evren, for his role in the 1980 army coup, the BBC has recently reported.
Prosecutors are seeking life terms for General Evren, aged 94, and another retired general, Tahsin Sahinkaya, aged 86, the only survivors among the five coup leaders.
The indictment of the surviving leaders of the September 1980 coup is seen as a result of changes to Turkey's 1982 constitution, under which the leaders of the army had been given effective immunity from prosecution.
