THIRD ERGENEKON INDICTMENT ACCEPTED

BIA
Aug 6 2009
Turkey

The indictment of 52 suspects has been accepted by the Istanbul 13th
High Criminal Court.

Istanbul – BIA News Center06 August 2009, Thursday The Istanbul 13th
High Criminal Court has accepted the 1,454-page third indictment
in the Ergenekon investigation, penned by the Istanbul Chief Public
Prosecution.

The text contains accusations against 52 people, 37 of them in
detention. Just like in the first two indictments, one accusation is
that of attempting to overthrow the government.

The first hearing of the case will be on 7 September.

The indictment is concerned with operations carried out between 10
January and 14 April 2009.

Kanadoglu and Dalan not included Sabih Kanadoglu, a former Chief Public
Prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Appeals, and Bedrettin Dalan, former
mayor of Metropolitan Istanbul and director of the ISTEK education
foundation, have not been included in the indictment. Investigations
into Dalan’s affairs continue.

A total of 202 defendants With the recent merge of the case of the
State Council attack (with eight defendants) with the first Ergenekon
trial, the total number of defendants in the Ergenekon trials is
202. There are 86 defendants in the first case and 56 in the second.

Among the defendants in the third indictment are Prof. Dr. Mehmet
Haberal, founder and rector of BaÅ~_kent University, and owner of
BaÅ~_kent Hospital and Kanal B TV station, Prof. Dr. Fatih Hilmioglu,
former rector of Malatya University, Prof. Dr. Ferit Bernay, former
rector of 19 May University, Prof. Dr. Erol Manisalı, a lawyer
at Istanbul University, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yurtkuran, former rector
of Uludag University and vice president of the Ataturkist Thought
Association (ADD), Prof. Dr. Osman Metin Ozturk, a retired major and
rector of Giresun University, writer Yalcın Kucuk, Ä°brahim Å~^ahin,
convicted in the Susurluk case and former Special Operations Police
Deputy Chief, Mustafa Ozbek, the president of the Turk Metal Ä°Å~_
metal workers’ trade union, Levent GöktaÅ~_, a retired naval major,
General Erdal Å~^enel, a former General Staff Chief Legal Consultant,
retired General Tuncel Kılınc, a former general secretary of the
State Security Council, Kemal Guruz, former president of the Council
of Higher Education (YOK), Squadron Commander Officer Taylan Ozgur
Kırmızı and Unal İnanc, journalist and president of the Security
Reporters’ Association.

Among those mentioned as victims in the indictment are Armenian
Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan and Minas Durmazguler from the Sivas Armenian
congregation. It is also allegd that plans had been made to assassinate
Ali Balkız, president of the Alevi Bektashi Federation and lawyer
Kazım Genc, president of the Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Assocation.

52 defendants The full list of defendants in the third indictment is:

Mehmet Haberal, Yalcın Kucuk, Halil Kemal Guruz, Mustafa Koc,
Ersin Gönenci, Oguz Bulut, Ä°brahim Å~^ahin, Mustafa Ozbek, Mustafa
Levent GöktaÅ~_, Rıza Ferit Bernay, Taylan Ozgur Kırmızı, Mustafa
Abbas Yurtkuran, Unal İnanc, Muhterem Bagcı, Hudayi Unluer, Fatih
Hilmioglu, İlhan Bulayır, Zerrar Atik, Fahri Kepek, İlyas Cınar,
Oguzhan Sagıroglu, Erdal Å~^ahin, Engin Aydın, Erbay Colakoglu,
Cengiz Köylu, Cihandar Hasanhanoglu, Muhammed Sarıkaya, Fatma
Cengiz, YaÅ~_ar Oguz Å~^ahin, Muhittin Erdal Å~^enel, Mehmet Koral,
Tuncer Kılınc Munur Kemal Yavuz, Hasan Ataman Yıldırım, Huseyin
Vural, Mustafa Dönmez, Murat Eke, Cihan Arık, Ali Oktay Å~^ahbaz,
Onur Ozdemir, Emre Baltacı, Melih Yuksel, Servet Kaynak, Fahri
Suslu, Kemalettin Balcı, Bulent Gungördu, Murat Cavdar, Mehmet
Dalagan, Ayhan Atabek, Kenan Temur, Erol Manisa and Mustafa Huseyin
Buzoglu.