Turkey's CHP leader criticizes arrest of ex-army chief.

Cihan - Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a staunch critic of the Ergenekon probe, commented on Basbug's arrest on Friday.

“I had earlier said that specially authorized courts [one of which arrested Basbug] are not ensuring justice and that they are courts that approve decisions made by the political authority [the government]. I am of the same opinion,” he said.

Basbug on Thursday testified as a suspect in an investigation into an alleged Internet campaign to discredit Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party). The prosecutors referred him to a court after questioning him for more than seven hours and he was arrested early on Friday.

Retired Gen. Basbug, who retired in 2010, is the highest-ranking officer to be caught up in a widening probe into the Ergenekon network, an ultra-nationalist group accused by prosecutors of conspiring to topple the government.

Basbug is facing charges of “gang leadership” and seeking to unseat the government by force.