The campaign made use of make-believe conspiracies with names like "Ergenekon" and "Sledgehammer," which Erdoğan and his cronies claimed were aimed at taking over the country.
The senator and former rugby league star known as the "Brick with Eyes", shattered the windscreen with the sledgehammer, which turned out to be a lemon itself and broke on the first hit.
They were among 49 people detained this week as part of an investigation into an alleged secret action plan called Sledgehammer, which prosecutors say was aimed at overthrowing Mr. Erdogan's government in 2003 after destabilizing the country with violence against civilian targets, including mosques.
Prosecutors have arrested dozens of military and former military personnel over the past few years as part of their investigation into a suspected plot, called Sledgehammer, which they said was aimed at overthrowing the Islamist government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his Justice and Development Party came to power in 2002.
Infinity Ward regrouped, though, teamed up with another developer, Sledgehammer, which was given responsibility for the online side of Modern Warfare 3, and pulled out the stops to create a game which easily meets the franchise's exacting standards – despite the fact that gamers have always considered Infinity Ward's games superior to those crafted by Treyarch.
In the latest development, police at the weekend arrested 162 officers, including former army, navy and air force commanders, on charges of involvement in an alleged 2003 plot called Sledgehammer, which aimed to topple the government after sowing chaos by bombing mosques and provoking war with Greece.
The investigation has lasted more than five years and spiralled into multiple inquiries and led to hundreds more arrests, including for another alleged conspiracy dubbed "Operation Sledgehammer", which prosecutors said was planning to use terrorist acts to create conditions for a military takeover.
Pro-government prosecutors conjured fantastical plots, Ergenekon and Operation Sledgehammer, which were used to crack-down on retired and current military officers.
The campaign made use of make-believe conspiracies with names like "Ergenekon'' and "Sledgehammer,'' which Erdoğan and his cronies claimed were aimed at taking over the country.
His father-in-law Cetin Dogan, an arch-secularist former general, was the chief suspect in the Sledgehammer plot, which allegedly contemplated the bombing of mosques, the murders of Christians and the downing of a Turkish fighter jet.
