"Ergenekon: worries and hopes
last week something like a minor judiciary coup happened within judiciary circles. I realize today that I have not emphasized that enough. A prosecutor from Ankara ordered the search of Ergenekon's Istanbul based prosecutor's headquarters. The claim was that Ankara prosecutor believed there was illegal phone listening happening in Istanbul prosecutor's office. So like an ambush, some officials visited the Istanbul office, then began to have a look who was being listened. This is a giant scandal. Some officials were found to be listing those who was being listened. This is a scandal. This is a judiciary intervention to an ongoing trial by another section of Turkish judiciary. I hear that some bureaucrats in Ankara are very anxious because of the Ergenekon trial.
I hear that there are already new 'understandings' after the AKP closure case. One shouldn't be very hopeful any more (!).
Ergenekon: worries and hopes
What will the outcome of the Ergenekon case be? This question alone is sufficient to explain the hopes and worries about the future of Turkey.Elder brother caught in Dink case
The older brother of one of the main suspects in the murder of journalist Hrant Dink was detained by police yesterday. Osman Hayal was detained for being in Istanbul when a teenage nationalistErgenekon questions in Malatya massacre case
The lead suspect in the Malatya massacre case denied any connection with retired Maj. Gen. Levent Ersöz, who was arrested in relation to the Ergenekon case, in a trial at Malatya's Third CourtA correct response to the Kurdish Gladio
My article titled "Kurdish Gladio" (Aug. 13) focused on the connections between certain groups acting under a Kurdish ideology and the deep state.Is the PKK trying to fill in for Ergenekon?
So many things have happened in Turkey during the last month that one might have a hard time trying to keep track of them. It seems as if an event that happened one month ago actually happened years ago. Yet we need to be mindful of two important events for Turkey.[CROSS READER] Terrorist PKK returns to stage
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) perpetrated another bloody attack on Thursday, this time in the western city of İzmir.JİTEM's existence finally exposed
Retired Col. Arif Doğan, taken into custody as part of an investigation into Ergenekon, confessed to being the leader of a secret and illegitimate military intelligence unit known as JİTEM, whose existence has so far been officially denied.When will democracy come to Turkey?
The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) expects to garner around 50 percent of the vote in the upcoming local elections. In other words, it aims to increase the amount of votes it swept in last year's July 22 elections.Will the AK Party remain silent?
While I was reading the newspapers yesterday, I saw that the allegations of bribery from Republican People's Party (CHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu against AK Party deputy Şaban Dişli regarding a dirty deal between Dişli and a printing house were continuing.Democrats proven right
Turkey was supposed to hold presidential elections in the spring of 2007. The primary factor that was expected to determine the new president was the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) due to its overwhelming majority in Parliament.The profound confusion of the ‘left’
As the Ergenekon terror network and its amazing subplots unfold on a daily basis, there is a developing debate within the left, spanning from whether it is legitimate to lend support to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to questioning what is seen as a "hidden intent" behind the whole case.Ergenekon Timeline
Today’s Zaman has provided a useful timeline for tracking the twists and turns in the Ergenekon case, beginning in July 2008: click here.
