A Turkish court has ordered a former armed forces chief to be remanded in custody overnight pending trial over charges of planning to overthrow the government.<br /><br />General Ilker Basbug is the highest ranking officer to be caught up in the so-called Ergenekon network, an ultra-nationalist group accused of conspiring against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<br /><br />Fadi Hakura, a manager of the Turkey Project at the think-tank Chatham House, London, told Al Jazeera that the arrest comes as no surprise.
