Top court rules to merge council of state, Ergenekon cases

Overturning a lower court decision, the Supreme Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that possible links between a deadly 2006 shooting at the Council of State the shooting and Ergenekon, a criminal network accused of attempting to overthrow the government, should be investigated. The 9th Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the cases covering the Council of State shooting and a hand grenade attack on a newspaper office be merged in light of suggested links between them and the Ergenekon probe.