SOFIA — A Turkish man convicted in absentia of plotting to overthrow the government at a high-profile trial earlier this month was arrested after escaping into Bulgaria, officials said Wednesday. Levent Temiz, 38, was detained near the southeastern border town of Malko Tarnovo on Aug. 8 after entering Bulgaria illegally, the interior ministry's chief of staff Svetlozar Lazarov told journalists. Lazarov said the authorities had confirmed Temiz's identity. Temiz was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Aug. 5 in a trial of 275 army officers, journalists, opposition politicians and others accused of plotting a coup against Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. — AP