Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
Jan 25 2009
Ergenekon Aims to Cut EU Ties Completely
* What would be the cost of not exposing the deeper branches of Ergenekon?
ANKARA – Samil Tayyar, the Ankara bureau chief of the Star daily and
author of the book "Operation Ergenekon," said the Ergenekon
organization aimed to cut Turkey’s ties with the West. He also argued
that the organization wanted to destroy the current Government:
"According to the Ergenekon organization, the Justice and Development
Party [AK Party] and everybody who voted for the AK Party are
traitors. Any political party which did not collaborate with them or
vote in line with them are traitors. Everyone who wants Turkey to join
the European Union is a traitor. This is why the front they hate is
very great. If the games they planned to play had not bee exposed,
Turkey could have really turned into a bloodbath. Major murders could
have been committed."
Mr. Tayyar gave the example of the Council of State attack in 2006
that left a senior judge dead. The act was blamed on Islamist groups
at the time, but now the prosecution has compelling evidence that it
was masterminded by Ergenekon. "They should erect a statue of the cop
who captured the Council of State hit man Alparslan Arslan. Today this
might sound too exaggerated, but thinking in terms of the conditions
of the day, the impact of the attack was huge. Ertu�Ÿrul
Ã?`zkÃ? ¶k had referred to the case as "Turkey’s
9/11.’ If Ergenekon had not been exposed, the AK Party could have been
thrown out of power somehow, and the European Union negotiation
process would have been halted."
Tayyar claims that after two previous failed coup attempts, made
public by the now-defunct Nokta newsweekly, Ergenekon had to go
underground and reorganize using its connections in different
terrorist groups and clandestine intelligence organizations. This
collaboration was the force behind the Council of State shooting, the
killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the killing of
an Italian priest in his church in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
"The reason they carried out these underground operations was to drag
Turkey into chaos, damage political and economic stability and finally
stage a coup d’Ã?©tat under those conditions. This is
because in a country where everything was on the right track, there
wouldn’t be the motivation or support for a coup
d’Ã?©tat. Their plan was to stage a coup in 2009, and
ultimately, create a country cut off from the world by the year 2023
and that had cut ties completely with the European Union," Tayyar
said.
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Journal of Turkish Weekly
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
