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    ALLIANCE BETWEEN TURKEY'S ULTRANATIONALIST HARDLINERS AND LEFT WING "NATIONALISTS"
    Ilnur Cevik

    The New Anatolian
    March 26 2008
    Turkey

    Three years ago we had written that some ultranationalist businessmen
    were arming extremist nationalists against the Kurds.

    At the time we were accused of trying to create sensation by some of
    our colleagues in the press.

    What is interesting is that as time went by it became apparent that we
    were more than accurate. The capture of an ultra right wing gang with
    explosives in an Istanbul suburb triggered a massive investigation
    which has now mushroomed into the Ergenekon operation.

    The aim of the gang was set up to create disturbances by assassinating
    leading Kurdish figures in Turkey as well Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
    and prominent journalist Fehmi Koru. They were already implicated in
    the killing of the supreme court judge and bombing left-wing daily
    Cumhuriyet.

    Several prominent far right personalities have been taken into
    custody and nearly two dozen were charged. But then the situation
    took a sudden turn as the prosecutor investigating the case turned
    his attention to left-wing "nationalists."

    The Workers Party set up by former Marxists and which has a highly
    ultranationalist agenda had been targeting Kurds as well as Turkish
    liberal personalities who support them through their Ulusal TV and
    their weekly Aydinklik magazine.

    So Workers Party leader Dogu Perincek as well as the executives of
    the TV station and the weekly were taken into custody and then charged.

    Also taken into custody was prominent journalist and Cumhuriyet CEO
    Ilhan Selcuk. Another prominent figure was controversial Prof. Kemal
    Alemdaroglu who was sacked by former President Ahmet Necdet Sezer as
    the president of the Istanbul University. Later the two were released
    but will stand trial. The judge who released them banned them from
    leaving the country.

    The arrest of these left-wing personalities triggered angry reactions
    from left-wing and some liberal circles. People questioned by left-wing
    people would cooperate with far right gangs.

    However, the answer seems rather clear.

    There are some circles in Turkey who are extremely unhappy with the
    Justice and Development Party in power and are cooperating to create
    havoc to create the groundwork for the downfall of the government
    possibly by some kind of a coup.

    So the ultra right wing extremists have joined forces with left-wing
    activists in a crusade to block the AK Party.

    Even the bombing of Cumhuriyet which did not actually result in any
    casualties but created sensation is the work of the gang with the
    approval of the left-wing activists.
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