SAHIN: AIM WAS TO BRING PKK LEADER TO TURKEY

Today’s Zaman
Jan 28 2009
Turkey

Former Special Operations Unit Deputy Chairman Ä°brahim Å~^ahin,
recently detained as part of an ongoing operation into the Ergenekon
terrorist organization, has said the reason behind his setting up
a 300-member special operations unit was to bring a senior outlawed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader to Turkey.

Å~^ahin was detained on Jan. 7 in the 10th wave of detentions in
the investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine crime network with
alleged links within the state.

Servet Kaynak, a police chief from the Special Operations Unit
who was arrested as part of the Ergenekon investigation last week,
said Å~^ahin ordered him to find "five reliable and good men" for an
"outside job." Kaynak stated that, at the time, he had expected to
receive Å~^ahin’s official duty approval form and claimed not to know
the details of the job for which the five-man team was being created.

During his police interrogation, Å~^ahin said he was commissioned
to set up a team of 300 officers to capture senior PKK leader Murat
Karayılan and bring him to Turkey.

While Å~^ahin claimed that he was commissioned to take part in the
fight against terrorism, phone conversations and documents seized in
his house showed that his allegations do not reflect the facts. The
police investigation revealed that Å~^ahin had ordered the killing
of a senior Armenian community leader.

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