Ergenekon Indictment Reveals Monstrous Plots
If even half of what is contained in the 2500-page indictment against the Ergenekon gang is true, this has been a long-running conspiracy of truly monstrous proportions. Below are some examples. (To read the article I took them from, click here)
Ergenekon, an organization [with alleged links to the military and security forces, as well as civilian members] that allegedly planned to overthrow the government by force, was behind a significant number of incidents and demonstrations designed specifically to incite a Turkish-Kurdish conflict. [Ergenekon] chose the southern city of Mersin as the “pilot” site to start the project of fanning a Kurdish and Turkish conflict that they hoped would eventually render Turkey unadministrable, after which they planned to call for military rule….
Ergenekon was behind a series of high-profile political assassinations that occurred over the past two decades, such as that of two secularist journalists, the head of a business conglomerate who was shot dead by militants of the extreme-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) and many others. The prosecutor also claims in the indictment that the group has links with other terrorist groups, such as Turkish Hizbullah and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Evidence indicates that the group had tried to take over other governments prior to the AK Party.
Ergenekon provided terrorist organizations, particularly the PKK, with monetary and logistic support [and] also worked with the PKK in the drug trade. [Ergenekon sent] members to funerals of martyred soldiers to cause agitation…
The indictment contains the transcript of [a] phone conversation between [Ergenekon-linked retired Col Fikri Karadag] and a person named Nazmi on Oct. 12, 2007… Nazmi asked, “What will happen with the situation of these Kurds?” Karadag replied: “Everyone who betrays this nation will see trouble. They don’t have a place in this country. They will be kicked out of here and go to hell. All of them will go to hell. You know, the best of these [Kurds] are the dead ones.”
[They] spread the word in Mersin that “the PKK has taken over the city” and called on all Yörüks — people descended from nomadic groups — to wage war against the Kurds. Secret witness number 17, whose identity is protected for security reasons, testified to the prosecutor that [they] had ordered two Turkish flags burned during a demonstration to provoke people.
The ultimate purpose of the Ergenekon and PKK terrorist organizations are the same: to provoke a Turkish-Kurdish conflict which would eventually create an atmosphere of chaos.
The Turkish Left magazine, an ultranationalist weekly at whose offices Ergenekon members came together frequently, has been working actively to create ethnic separatism in the country. In December 2007, the magazine started a campaign titled “I shop from Turks; my money does not go to the PKK.”… “Kurds in Turkey are not brothers of the Turks but opponents.”…
[JW: For anyone with a sense of history, this should sound familiar and raise the hair on the back of our necks.]
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