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    TURKEY IS ON THE THRESHOLD OF POLITICAL UPHEAVAL

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    29.01.2008 GMT+04:00

    The Kemalists have decided take revenge after the defeat in the
    parliamentary elections in July 2007 when the Islamic Justice and
    Development Party came to power in Turkey.

    Last week the Office of Public Prosecutor of Turkey brought accusations
    against the 33 nationalists, involved in "Ergenekon" grouping, for
    preparations of the coup d'etat. The decision followed the arrests of
    several nationalists, members of "Ergenekon" grouping this week. The
    police caught the track of the nationalists after 700 kg explosive
    and weapon was found in a house in Istanbul last summer. According
    to Hurriyet, the members of grouping were in the past involved in
    radical Islamic organization "Hezbollah".

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Ergenekon" planned a series of terrorist acts and
    political assassinations, including assassinations against the Nobel
    Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk and several Kurdish political figures. The
    conspirators were planning to realize armed coup d'etat against
    right wing central government of Turkey. It is presumed that the
    members of the grouping had their role in the assassination if the
    Turkish journalist of Armenian origin Hrant Dink in January 2007. The
    "submerged state" is the one to be blamed for the assassination of
    Dink. The "submerged state" is an underground organization and a part
    of the security services and officials, who are strictly against the
    democratization of Turkey. Dink's assassination was more complicated
    than single crimes and was the result of "dangerous thinking" in
    Turkey," thinks Minnesota University Professor, Turkish historian
    Taner Akcam, who lives in the USA.

    The Kemalists have decided to take revenge after the defeat in the
    parliamentary elections in July 2007, when the Islamic Justice and
    Development Party came to power in Turkey. The policy carried out
    by the Prime-Minister Recep Erdoghan in the time of former President
    Ahmed Sezer was criticized by Kemalists and military men. Rather often
    the President used his right of veto regarding the laws proposed by
    Justice and Development Party, which somehow concern the fundamentals
    of the state, established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Naturally, in
    a country like Turkey an organization fighting to return the Kemal
    times must exist. According to Rouben Safrastyan, the existence of
    organization "Ergenekon" is one of the manifestations of "submerged
    state", whose aim is to preserve Kemalism in Turkey. "The arrested
    had connections in higher spheres, including the army. "A wave of
    terrorist attacks threatens Turkey, but I am sure that the arrested are
    only the lowest squads of the multibranch network organization. Now
    they threaten with Orhan Pamuk and Christians with two aims. First
    of all it is to scare those who have other opinions and secondly,
    it is to create tension in the country, which will give occasion for
    army interference," mentioned Director of the Institute of Oriental
    Studies R. Safrastyan. As for Orhan Pamuk, it should be added, that
    after the assassination of Hrant Dink, he left the country and most
    probably, doesn't intend to return yet.

    The phenomenon of "submerged state" used for Turkey is not something
    new. This tradition traces back to the days of Young Turks. During
    1908-1928 the Ottoman Empire was ruled by the Central Committee of
    the Young Turks party, whose members were kept in secret. The head
    of this "state" enrolls groups of individuals who represent the
    political and military circles of the country. The names of these
    people are not known, even though they are in power to take decisions
    and possess all the means to realize them. What unites these people
    is their striving to preserve the fundamentals of Kemalist Republic,
    which is based on the principle of separation of the religion and
    state, as well as the national ideology of Turkish great-power
    nationalism. Turkish researchers do not exclude the fact that the
    "submerged state" to a certain extent manipulates the movement of the
    "grey wolves". "In this regard the assassination of Dink should be
    viewed as one of the assassinations which will influence not only
    the public atmosphere in Turkey, but will also be used by different
    political powers for their own interests," thinks the Director of
    the Institute of Oriental Studies.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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