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    NATIONAL POLICE OF TURKEY SUSPECTED IN PLANNING OF MURDER OF REPRESENTATIVES OF ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS IN TURKEY

    ArmInfo
    2009-11-20 15:07:00

    ArmInfo. The investigation into an alleged illegal network known as
    Ergenekon has revealed that a civilian who was formerly employed by
    the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had collected detailed information on
    Turkey's ethnic Armenian population.

    As Turkish Zaman says, Ergenekon investigators found that Fatma
    Cengiz, who is currently a suspect in the case against Ergenekon,
    collected various dossiers regarding the Armenian community in Turkey.

    The file included a list of subscribers to the bilingual Armenian
    weekly Agos.

    In addition, there were lists of names and members of Armenian
    foundations and churches, which were classified as "active" or not, as
    well as the balance sheets of Agos. Cengiz had been in the limelight
    before after claims that she gave information to Ibrahim Sahin,
    a former deputy head of the National Police Department's Special
    Operations Unit, to establish "S-1 and S-2 teams" to assassinate
    intellectual leaders in society.

    According to sources, Cengiz also tracked the names of academics,
    writers and journalists who participated a two-day academic conference
    held on Sept. 24-25, 2005, at Istanbul Bilgi University titled "Ottoman
    Armenians during the Decline of the Empire: Issues of Scientific
    Responsibility and Democracy." The conference openly disputed the
    official Turkish account of the Armenian massacres. In the files
    allegedly belonging to Cengiz, who is also known as Asena Ozturk,
    there are several famous names, with notes next to their names:
    Halil Berktay, "professor, he had publicly said that Armenians were
    massacred"; Kazm Aknc, "secret Armenian, he applied to a court to
    change his religion after Dink [Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink
    who was assassinated by an ultranationalist teenager in 2007]";
    Ece Temelkuran, "she said that if something happens to her the
    prime minister is responsible for it, she is a graduate of the Ankara
    faculty of law"; Herkul Milas, "he is not an Armenian"; Sevan Nisanyan,
    "writer at Taraf, maybe from Agos, needed to be investigated"; Markar
    Esayan, "Taraf writer, information regarding him will come together
    with Etyen Mahcupyan"; Aytac Ilhan, "he might be a student in Igdr,
    he should be investigated, he had applied to change his religion";
    Baskn Oran, Adalet Agaoglu and Elif Safak.

    Investigators have also found a PowerPoint presentation which was
    allegedly prepared by Cengiz, who signed it as Asena Ozturk. In that
    presentation, pictures of Sahin and Korkut Eken, a former officer of
    the TSK Special Operations, are placed side by side. There is also a
    photograph of former Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukant, in
    addition to the expression "Everything is for the country," written
    in blood on a background of weapons and the Turkish flag.
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