PLOTTERS SENT DEATH LIST TO AGOS

Today’s Zaman
Feb 19 2010
Turkey

Plotters behind a plan to kill non-Muslim community figures
sent a list of individuals they hoped to assassinate to the
Turkish-Armenian language Agos daily, whose editor-in-chief was
killed by an ultranationalist teenager two years ago, according to
new evidence included in the indictment prepared in the Poyrazköy
hidden weapons probe.

According to evidence included in the indictment, a letter was sent
to the Agos daily one month after Dink’s assassination. Although it
was not clear who wrote the letter, a copy of it was found during the
Poyrazköy investigation in one of the suspects’ homes. The prosecutors
believe that these were the first steps of the Ergenekon-linked Cage
Action Plan to assassinate non-Muslim community figures and thus create
chaos in the country. Ergenekon is a gang charged with plotting to
overthrow the government by masterminding a military intervention.

The copy of the letter included in the indictment says: "If Etyen
Mahcupyan does not violate Article 301 [of the Turkish Penal Code,
which criminalizes insulting Turkishness] like Hrant Dink, he will
not be touched. … Mahcupyan, Emin ClaÅ~_an, those who are selling
our land to our enemies have passed an oil law as the separatist
traitors now want to sell our oil. The list of those who will be
killed in relation with this are: [Diyarbakır Mayor] Osman Baydemir,
[businessman] Omer Sabancı, Bulent Kar [Manisa mayor, because he
wants a federal state structure and two flags], [EU negotiator] Ali
Babacan, [former Finance Minister] Kemal Unakıtan and Orhan Pamuk
[that traitor of a writer].

These are only seven of all the traitors."