ARE ALEVIS TARGET OF ERGENEKON?

BIA
Jan 13 2009
Turkey

Kazım Genc, president of the Alevi Pir Sultan Abdal Culture
Association, is preparing a press statement after his name was found
on a "death list" by special operations police head Ä°brahim Å~^ahin.

The discovery of a "death list" in the home of arrested Ä°brahim
Å~^ahin, the former head of the Police Special Operations Department,
has led to claims that Alevi community leaders were going to be
targeted.

Police protection for Alevi community leaders

Ali Balkız, the president of the Alevi BektaÅ~_i Federation, has been
given police protection and will speak to the press today (13 January).

Kazım Genc, the president of the Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Association,
was also targeted, as detailed plans found on Å~^ahin’s computer
reveal. Genc, too, will organise a press briefing today.

Further targets

According to the Turkish media, further targets for assassinations
were the Armenian Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan and the president of the
Alevi Cem Foundation, Ä°zzetin Dogan.

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