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  • ANKARA: Second Case On Assassination Plot Merged With Ergenekon

    SECOND CASE ON ASSASSINATION PLOT MERGED WITH ERGENEKON

    Today's Zaman
    Aug 3, 2011
    Turkey

    A second case regarding a suspected assassination plot against Armenian
    community leader Minas Durmazguler was merged on Wednesday with the
    ongoing case into Ergenekon, a clandestine criminal network charged
    with plotting to overthrow the government by creating large-scale
    chaos in the country.

    The Ä°stanbul 13th High Criminal Court, which is hearing what is known
    as the second Ergenekon trial since it was initiated on the basis of
    a second indictment prepared by the prosecution during the course of
    the investigation, ruled to merge the assassination plot case with
    the second Ergenekon trial on the grounds that there are legal and
    evidentiary links between the two cases.

    The prosecution claims that Garip Ä°rfan Torun, one of the suspects
    in the assassination case, was given a Glock gun to kill Durmazguler
    by Ä°brahim Å~^ahin, currently under arrest on charges of membership
    in the coup-plotting clandestine organization known as Ergenekon.

    The first case filed regarding the assassination plot was earlier
    merged with Ergenekon. Bekir Celik and Emrah Gönenci are the two
    suspects in that case. Investigators conducting the probe into the
    assassination plot to kill Durmazguler have found that the two men were
    connected to Å~^ahin. In October 2010, the two were apprehended in the
    investigation, but released pending trial. The Ä°stanbul 13th High
    Criminal Court accepted the indictment for the plot after a Sivas
    prosecutor asked that the case be merged with one of the ongoing
    Ergenekon trials. The court merged the two cases.

    Å~^ahin, a former senior police official who was the deputy head
    of the National Police Department's Special Operations Unit, was
    arrested after investigators in the Ergenekon trial established
    that he was recruiting police officers to join his S1 death squads,
    which would have staged attacks and assassinated important community
    leaders to serve Ergenekon's goal of causing chaos in Turkey with
    the ultimate hope of triggering a military coup. Tracking Gönenci's
    connections revealed his ties to Å~^ahin. The police found that he
    had gathered intelligence about would-be victim Durmazguler under
    Å~^ahin's instructions and relayed this information to the former
    police official. The indictment notes that during a visit from Å~^ahin
    to Sivas, he stayed at Gönenci's home and that the two men drove to
    Kayseri and Tokat together.

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