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    ERGENEKON DOCUMENT REVEALS MÄ°T'S ASSASSINATION SECRETS

    Today'S Zaman
    Aug 19 2008
    Turkey

    A New Document From The Ergenekon Archive Has Revealed That The
    National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) Paid Regular Salaries To
    Ultranationalists To Carry Out Illegal Operations.

    Ergenekon is a shadowy criminal network with links to the bureaucracy,
    state security forces and other agencies whose members are accused
    of orchestrating various murders and attacks so as to create chaos
    and trigger a coup d'état against the government.

    The information about MÄ°T has been suspected for a long time, but
    this is the first time a document will appear in court that exposes
    the details of an episode in which some members of the Nationalist
    Movement Party's (MHP) extreme nationalist groups, also known as
    the Grey Wolves, were armed and funded by the state to carry out
    political murders.

    The document, found in Ergenekon archives and presented to a civil
    court of law last month along with the indictment against the
    group's suspected members, revealed a deal made between various
    ultranationalists who had fled the country as fugitives after being
    involved in a number of acts of political violence in the prelude to
    the violent coup on Sept. 12, 1980, most significantly the murder of
    Milliyet newspaper Editor-in-Chief Abdi Ä°pekci (1977) and the brutal
    killings of seven left-wing university students (1978).

    These nationalists -- including Abdullah Catlı, Oral Celik and Mehmet
    Å~^ener, who are all publicly associated with such activities as the
    drug trade, extortion, and the kidnappings and murders of southeastern
    businessmen -- were hired to assassinate targets, mostly members of
    Armenian terrorist organization the Armenian Secret Army for the
    Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), which frequently attacked Turkish
    diplomatic targets abroad in those days. Later, some of them were
    brought back to Turkey to stage illegal operations against the
    terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

    An earlier record of evidence of shadowy MÄ°T operations only included
    the names of Catlı and Haluk Kırcı. The secret archive document from
    the Ergenekon investigation was found at the office of the Workers'
    Party (Ä°P), a small neo-nationalist party whose leader is currently
    in jail over alleged Ergenekon membership. It lists the names of
    everyone on the assassination team and reveals that Catlı acted as
    the group's leader, or "reis" in Grey Wolf jargon.

    According to the Ergenekon document titled "The Armenian Question
    2000-2002," the administrators in power in 1982 -- the generals who
    staged the Sept. 12 coup -- decided to retaliate against ASALA's
    terrorist attacks. MÄ°T's Deputy Regional Director Metin Gunyol was
    assigned to lead the operation. He quit his position at MÄ°T in order
    not to expose his true identity and flew to Europe under the name
    Veli Ozpınar. Once in Europe, Gunyol contacted former Grey Wolf
    Cengiz Cömert.

    Cömert was later mentioned in a parliamentary commission report
    prepared after the Susurluk affair of 1996 -- a car accident that
    exposed for the first time the shadowy relations between state security
    forces and the criminals they were employing for operations outside
    the law -- as being linked to the murder of southeastern businessman
    Mehmet Ali Yaprak, who was kidnapped and then killed.

    Gunyol, after his initial contact with Cömert, set up a team of 12
    individuals, including Abdullah Catlı (using the name Mehmet Sarol),
    Oral Celik (Atilla Celik) and Mehmet Å~^ener (DurmuÅ~_ Unutmaz); others
    included former nationalist club leaders Ramiz Ongun, Enver TortaÅ~_,
    Tevfik Esensoy, Bedri AteÅ~_ (Ugur Ozgöbek), Rıfat Yıldırım,
    Turkmen Onur and Uzeyir Bayraklı.

    MÄ°T initially allocated $320 monthly to this group from the state's
    discretionary funds for fighting terrorism; later they increased the
    amount to $4,700. The group was supplied with five 7.65 mm Belgian
    Brownings, five nine mm Brownings, two Kalashnikovs, nine blocks of
    TNT, five blocks of plastic explosive and other ammunitions delivered
    by couriers.

    The group bombed the Armenian genocide memorial in Alfortville, Paris,
    on May 3, 1984. The French police soon discovered that the operation
    was commanded by the Turkish MÄ°T.

    The indictment against Ergenekon argues that based on information
    from the group's archive, the network planned to "learn" from MÄ°T's
    "experience against ASALA." Ergenekon's plan was to turn Turkey's
    economy into a narcotics-based industry, which would erode American
    support for Turkey and at the same time "end peace and stability in
    Armenia completely and until the end of time."

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    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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