Moonlight and Blonde Girl
Moonlight and Blonde Girl: These are the poetic names given to coups allegedly planned by former Turkish military commanders that have been revealed through the Ergenekon probe and documented in the diaries of now-retired Admiral Özdem Örnek. Örnek, together with Land Forces Commander Gen. Aytaç Yalman, Air Forces Commander Gen. Ibrahim Firtina and Gendarmerie Commander Gen. Sener Eruygur — who today heads the Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) — allegedly planned to stage a coup they code-named Blonde Girl in 2004, but gave up due to the unwillingness of some other higher-ranking officers, including Hilmi Özkök, the then-chief of the General Staff. Örnek’s journal suggested that Eruygur then planned a coup by himself that he called Moonlight.
Last year in April, the respected weekly news magazine Nokta published excerpts from the diary describing the coup plot. An investigation was launched following the allegation — not into Örnek and his coup plans, but into Nokta Editor-in-Chief Alper Görmüs. The police raided Nokta’s offices and the newsweekly was shut down. Örnek had denied that the journals belong to him and filed a lawsuit against Görmüs on charges of slander. Görmüs is still on trial, facing up to nearly seven years in jail for “slander” and “publicly insulting an individual.”
A recent news report by Görmüs claims that, as part of the Ergenekon probe, police information technology experts apparently have linked an electronic copy of excerpts from the diaries to a computer at Naval Forces headquarters.
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In another development, someone tried to burn the hard drive of the computer in the headquarters of the Worker Party, whose leader, Dogu Perincek, former Maoist and born-again neo-nationalist, had been arrested as part of the Ergenekon sweep.
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