Case against plot to kill Patriarch Bartholomew merged with Ergenekon

TODAYS ZAMAN 5/5/2011 Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew A case filed against a plot to assassinate the İstanbul-based leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has been merged with the ongoing case into Ergenekon, a suspected criminal network charged with plotting to overthrow the Turkish government. The merger decision came on Thursday during a hearing of the trial into the plot to kill Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew. The trial is being heard at the İstanbul 9th High Criminal Court