"DEEP STATE" LAYS DOWN CARDS

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.01.2008 16:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Existence of Ergenekon is a manifestation of the
"deep state", whose aim us to maintain Kemalism in Turkey, Director
of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the RA Academy of Sciences,
Dr Ruben Safrastyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

"Those arrested in Turkey had close links with high ranking officials,
including the military. Turkey is facing a wave of terrorist
acts. However, I am confident that the people arrested are just
subordinates in this organization. They threaten to kill Orhan Pamuk
and Christians in order to tense the situation and pave the way to
military interference," Dr Safrastyan said.

On January 26, The Turkish law enforces arrested 33 members of the
Ergenekon network over suspicion in plotting a coup d’etat. The
investigation has so far found that the Ergenekon organization had
plotted to kill Turkey’s Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk and
other public figures to drag Turkey into chaos to create the perfect
environment for a coup – not unlike the atmosphere of the pre-1980
period, which ended with a violent military takeover – that was to
be staged in 2009.

The gang is also supposed to have plotted the assassination of Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink.