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ACTIVE GENERALS CALLED TO COURT IN COUP CASE IN TURKEY
Hurriyet
Aug 8 2011
Turkey
Retired Gen. Hasan Igsız, the former head of the First Army, is also
among the suspects.
An Istanbul court on Monday issued an order for seven active generals,
including the former Aegean Army commander, and admirals to be brought
to court in connection with an alleged plot to topple the government.
The suspects included Gen. Nusret Tasdeler, the former head of the
Aegean forces who was appointed as head of the army's educational
command during the recent Supreme Military Council, or YAS, and Ismail
Hakki Pekin, the intelligence chief of the General Staff.
Retired Gen. Hasan Igsız, the former head of the First Army, is also
among the suspects, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The other military personnel ordered to be brought to court were Adm.
Mehmet Otuzbiroglu, Gen. Mehmet Eröz, Gen. Hıfzı Cubuklu,
Gen. Mustafa Bakıcı, Adm. Alaettin Sevim, Col. Sedat Ozuer and
Retired Col. Fuat Selvi.
The officers were among 22 suspects charged last month in the "Internet
Memorandum" investigation for attempting to oust the Justice and
Development Party, or AKP, government.
The Internet Memorandum is an alleged document by the General Staff
about setting up 42 Internet sites to distribute propaganda against
the AKP, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and Greeks
and Armenians.
Retired Col. Dursun Cicek, who is currently on trial in four different
alleged coup-plot cases, confirmed the existence of the memorandum
at a hearing earlier this month.
"The 'Internet Memorandum' is a real document," Cicek said Aug. 1
at a hearing for the case regarding the Action Plan for the Fight
against Fundamentalism. "If this fake plan [the Action Plan] was real,
I would have said that."
The court also ruled that the Internet Memorandum case be merged with
the Action Plan for the Fight against Fundamentalism case.
That plan allegedly includes strategies to end both AKP rule and
the activities of the Fethullah Gulen community, a religious group
believed to have links to the government.
Prosecutor Cihan Kansız is expected to seek the arrest of the suspects
pending trial once they are brought before the court.
Hurriyet
Aug 8 2011
Turkey
Retired Gen. Hasan Igsız, the former head of the First Army, is also
among the suspects.
An Istanbul court on Monday issued an order for seven active generals,
including the former Aegean Army commander, and admirals to be brought
to court in connection with an alleged plot to topple the government.
The suspects included Gen. Nusret Tasdeler, the former head of the
Aegean forces who was appointed as head of the army's educational
command during the recent Supreme Military Council, or YAS, and Ismail
Hakki Pekin, the intelligence chief of the General Staff.
Retired Gen. Hasan Igsız, the former head of the First Army, is also
among the suspects, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The other military personnel ordered to be brought to court were Adm.
Mehmet Otuzbiroglu, Gen. Mehmet Eröz, Gen. Hıfzı Cubuklu,
Gen. Mustafa Bakıcı, Adm. Alaettin Sevim, Col. Sedat Ozuer and
Retired Col. Fuat Selvi.
The officers were among 22 suspects charged last month in the "Internet
Memorandum" investigation for attempting to oust the Justice and
Development Party, or AKP, government.
The Internet Memorandum is an alleged document by the General Staff
about setting up 42 Internet sites to distribute propaganda against
the AKP, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and Greeks
and Armenians.
Retired Col. Dursun Cicek, who is currently on trial in four different
alleged coup-plot cases, confirmed the existence of the memorandum
at a hearing earlier this month.
"The 'Internet Memorandum' is a real document," Cicek said Aug. 1
at a hearing for the case regarding the Action Plan for the Fight
against Fundamentalism. "If this fake plan [the Action Plan] was real,
I would have said that."
The court also ruled that the Internet Memorandum case be merged with
the Action Plan for the Fight against Fundamentalism case.
That plan allegedly includes strategies to end both AKP rule and
the activities of the Fethullah Gulen community, a religious group
believed to have links to the government.
Prosecutor Cihan Kansız is expected to seek the arrest of the suspects
pending trial once they are brought before the court.