A protester waves a Turkish flag printed with a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, on a road which leads to a courthouse during a demonstration in Ankara October 9, 2013. Turkey's appeals court upheld convictions on Wednesday of top retired military officers for leading a plot to overthrow Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government a decade ago in a case underlining civilian dominance over a once all-powerful army. The court overturned convictions of dozens of less prominent defendants among more than 300 officers sentenced last September in the "Sledgehammer" conspiracy, said to have included plans to bomb mosques in Istanbul to pave the way for an army takeover. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)