PROSECUTORS yesterday indicted 86 secular Turks — including high-ranking ex-military officials — on terrorism charges for their alleged involvement in plots to topple the Islamic-rooted government.

Turkey’s top court today banned the wearing of Islamic head scarves at universities in a blow to the Islamic-leaning government.

Turkey’s head of state has protested a US congressional panel decision to approve a bill calling the First World War-era killings of Armenians a genocide, saying the decision came as a result of “petty domestic politics”.