Video Reveals Link Between Ergenekon And Sabanca± Murder
Today’s Zaman
Sept 4 2008
Turkey
A video recording has revealed that Gen. Veli Kucuk, the suspected
leader of the political crime gang known as Ergenekon, might be behind
the murder of businessman Ozdemir Sabancı.
The chief prosecutor in the Ergenekon investigation, Zekeriya Oz,
received a CD containing a video of an October 2000 prison rebellion
in UÅ~_ak, instigated by brothers Nuri and Vedat Ergin. In the video,
apparently taken by somebody inside the prison, Nuri Ergin shouts:
"The state had me murder Mustafa Duyar [suspected of assassinating
Sabancı]. I killed him."
Then Vedat Ergin appears in another window with a gun in one hand,
shouting: "Call brother Veli. Tell him about me. I am not saying
anything else. God be with you."
Apparently both Nuri and Vedat Ergin spoke to the camera, but who took
the video is not known since no television cameras could approach
the building during the rebellion. Oz took testimonies of the Ergin
brothers, both of whom are still serving time in prison.
Top Turkish businessman Sabancı was shot dead in his high-security
office on Jan. 9, 1996. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation
Party/Front (DHKP/C) claimed responsibility for the murder. Duyar,
a suspect in the murder, surrendered himself a year later and was
put in Afyon prison. He was killed in prison in 1999.
The Ergenekon indictment, however, said the assassination was not
solely perpetrated by the organization. It stated that Duyar, Fehriye
Erdal and Ä°smail Akkol (the perpetrators of the assassination) were
noted in a document that was prepared eight days before the shooting
and later seized during a police raid at the ultranationalist and
anti-European Union weekly Aydınlık. The indictment said it would
be impossible to turn a blind eye to the link between the document,
the Sabancı assassination and Ergenekon. The indictment also noted
that Kucuk, believed to be one of the masterminds of the network,
had threatened Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist slain by a
teenager in 2007, before his murder, a sign that Ergenekon could be
behind his death as well.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
