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That may explain why few journalists are shedding any tears for Mr Dogan.

The Dogan agency is quoting unidentified military sources as saying that at least 25 additional F-16 fighter jets were deployed at Turkey's Diyarbakir air base late Monday.

When newspapers owned by Aydin Dogan, Turkey's most powerful media boss, began heaping praise on Mehmet Ali Bayar, a youngish spark who gave up a stellar diplomatic career last month to lead a small conservative party, Mesut Yilmaz, a deputy prime minister, remarked that the new media law, then in draft, might have to be tweaked.

It is part of the Dogan group, headed by Aydin Dogan, an Anatolian tycoon who made his first fortune dealing in Ford trucks in the 1970s.Among other things, the group owns Hurriyet and Milliyet, two of Turkey's bestselling newspapers.

More than a few stories have been outright silly but others have turned out to be disturbingly true.Some suggest that the reason Mr Dogan has gone sour on the government is that it has shut him out of lucrative contracts in favour of its pious businessmen friends.

The commission repeats its worries about assaults by the tax authorities on Turkey's biggest media conglomerate, the Dogan group, which began only after its reporters started digging into corruption among AK members.

Dogan-owned companies are swarming with tax inspectors.

"The message from the government to everybody, is that if you go after me I'll go after you," comments one Dogan-employed journalist.

Dogan-affiliated journalists say they face constant pressure to temper their copy.

Recently Professor Dogan Soyaslan declared, during a parliamentary debate on changes to Turkey's penal code, that "nobody would want to marry a girl who is not virgin".

Their party, led by Ahmed Dogan, is a frequent target of complaints by anti-corruption campaigners.