BBC news with John Jason.

A Turkish court has given prison sentences to more than 300 military officers for plotting to

overthrow

the government. Three former commanders from the army, navy and air force were given 20-year sentences for leading the

conspiracy

. Here is James Reynolds.

The court outside Istanbul did something which would have been unthinkable a decade ago. It found more than 300 military officers guilty of trying to overthrow the government. For years, the Turkish military saw the overthrow of a civilian administration as its right. It got rid of four governments. But the court has now decided that this right is a crime. The judge has found that more than 300 officers tried to organize a plot in 2003 called Sledgehammer.

The American republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has

made public

his tax records for last year to counter allegations that he pays too little tax. Earlier in the week, Mr. Romney said in a video that nearly half of the country didn't pay income tax. From Washington, here is Paul Adams.

The documents show that in 2011 Mitt Romney and his wife paid almost $2m in tax on an income, mostly from investments, of more than $13.5m. But the candidate's opponents want to know more with some senior Democrats suggesting Mr. Romney sometimes avoided paying tax at all. And so Mr. Romney has also released a summary covering 20 years from 1990. It shows that the couple paid both state and federal tax through out with an average federal rate of 20%.