TURKISH DEEP STATE ERGENEKON’S FOREIGN POLICY GUIDE
By Merve Mervan

Journal of Turkish Weekly
Jan 20 2009
Turkey

– Ergenekon network mainly aims to break Turkey’s ties with the NATO
and the West in general.

– Most of the Ergenekon members are anti-Semitic. They claim that
the MOSSAD has played very dirty role in Turkish politics and aimed
to divide the country into poles.

– Almost all Ergenekon members are isolationalist. They are against
the European Union, United State and Israel. All are ultra-nationalist
Kemalist.

– The Ergenekon generals prefer Russian and Iranian relations instead
of American and Western relations.

– Ergenekon made a strong campaign against the US intervention in
Iraq in 2003.

– Ergenekon members are against all kind of negotiations in Cyprus.

– Ergenekon members have very strong relations with Moscow. One of
the high level members, Levent Ersoz had escaped to Moscow.

– Some of the Ergenekon members, like Dogu Perincek, has special
relations with China.

– Ergenekon defends that Turkey should not join the EU. They see the
EU as anti-Turkish and enemy organization.

– Ergenekon members argue that the biggest danger for Turkish interests
is an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. They defends that
Turkey should destroy the Barzani and Talabani forces. They further
argue that Turkey should intervene militarily in Kerkuk issue.

– Almost all of them are anti-Semitic. Some of the Ergenekon
intellectuals wrote anti-Semitic books and started anti-Semitic
campaigns in order to spread their anit-Israeli opinion amon the
people.

– Ergenekon defends that the secret Jews and secret Armenians govern
the country.

– Ergenekon is against any dialogue with Armenia and Armenians.

– Ergenekon claims that the current AKP Government is backed by the US.

– According to the Ergenekon papers, the US wants to use Turkey in
order to re-construct the Middle East (Greater Middle eastern Project).

– Dogu Perincek, one of the leading Ergenok names: "The name of the
enemy is the United States. The US wants to destroy the unity of the
nation and the country." (March 2008)

– Perincek: The one who is behind terrorism in Turkey is the US
(July 2007)

– Retired General Tuncer Kilinc, the former General Secretary of
the Turkish National Security Council (MGK), argued that Turkey
should leave the NATO alliance and should search possibilities
for close co-operation with Russia and other power centers in the
region. Kilinc is considered one of the significant members of the
Ergenekon network. Kilinc said "the United States use the NATO and
United Nations in its global hegemony. Kilinc further claimed that
Turkey (30 May 2007).