Nineteen people, including … five lieutenants and [a] military student, were detained on Thursday in police operations… as part of an investigation into Ergenekon, a neo-nationalist gang believed to be the extension of a clandestine network of groups with members in the armed forces that planned to overthrow the government…
Land Forces Lt. Mehmet Ali […]
Nineteen people, including six active army lieutenants and a military academy student, were detained yesterday in police operations in five cities, including Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, as part of the investigation into Ergenekon, a neo-nationalist gang believed to be the extension of a clandestine network of groups with members in the armed forces that planned […]
One of the assailants in a deadly armed attack on the US Consulate General in Istanbul in July had engaged in phone conversations with suspects arrested as part of the investigation into Ergenekon, a neo-nationalist gang believed to be the extension of a clandestine network of groups with members in the armed forces that planned […]
Documents seized in a police raid on the house of an executive of a TV station as part of the ongoing Ergenekon operation have revealed that a secret and illicit military intelligence unit known as JITEM was engaged in several illegal acts, including drug and human smuggling and arms trade with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ […]
Today’s Zaman has provided a useful timeline for tracking the twists and turns in the Ergenekon case, beginning in July 2008: click here.
[The investigation is continuing into] Ergenenekon, a shadowy network whose suspected members are accused of having planned and staged attacks and assassinations for the ultimate aim of toppling the government…
One of the most curious documents seized during the Ergenekon operation is a file titled the “Turkish Woman Master Plan,” depicting the ideal Turkish […]
From Andrew Finkel’s insightful column (for the full text, click here):
…Those defendants in what has become popularly known as the Ergenekon affair are accused of some pretty terrible things. On the other hand it is an absurdity to think that they are responsible for every unhappy swerve in Turkey’s post-war history.
Many of the things now […]
A prosecutor conducting a probe into the Ergenekon terrorist organization, a crime network accused of plotting to overthrow the government, has submitted an organizational chart of the group; however, the name of the suspected leader of Ergenekon has not yet been made public….
The prosecutor, who on Wednesday turned in a chart showing the hierarchical structure […]
An answer to those, like the misguided pundit Michael Rubin, who claim Ergenekon is a fiction, can be found in a recent declaration signed by three hundred of Turkey’s top intellectuals (professors, jurists, artists, writers and journalists) urging a full investigation of Ergenekon and its links to the state. I’m familiar with many of […]
Documents seized as part of an investigation into Ergenekon, whose suspected members are accused of having plotted to orchestrate a coup against the government, suggest that senior generals in the army gathered and talked about what they could do to overthrow the government in 2003 and 2004, a report from Radikal daily said yesterday.
The […]