TURKEY: Deep,deep ...Chaos
Turkey-Deep State
Indictment:
Cage plan against non-Muslims already in operation
A new indictment into an alleged Naval Forces Command plan called the Cage Operation Action Plan suggests that the subversive plan had already been put into operation against Turkey's non-Muslim community.
The indictment was accepted by the İstanbul 12th High Criminal Court on Friday. The document calls for jail sentences of up to 15 years each for three admirals and 30 naval officers on charges of membership in a terrorist organization. The Cage plan is an alleged navy plot to undermine the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) by assassinating prominent non-Muslim figures in Turkey and putting the blame for the killings on the party. The plan aimed to intimidate the country's non-Muslim groups, which was expected to increase internal and external pressure on the ruling party. Weakening public support for the party was intended to eventually lead to a military takeover.
The murdered,Armenian-Turkish journalist, Hrant Dink
According to the indictment, the plan had already been put into operation in a number of İstanbul districts. Letters that included threatening messages were sent to non-Muslim Turkish citizens from the Kasımpaşa Post Office on May 3, 2007. “A two-page letter that bears the title ‘Final Warning’ was sent to a number of Armenian schools in İstanbul. The letter reads that the movement has been launched for the future of the Turkish people,” the indictment says.
The Cage plan also called the killings of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, Catholic priest Andrea Santoro and three Christians in Malatya part of their “operation.” The group intended those killings to foment chaos in society, but this failed to happen.
The plan was detailed on a CD seized last year from the office of retired Maj. Levent Bektaş, who was arrested in April for suspected links to a large cache of munitions buried in İstanbul’s Poyrazköy area. That discovery came as part of an investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine gang whose suspected members are currently standing trial on charges of having plotted to overthrow the government.
According to the indictment, the plot was coordinated and led by retired Adm. Ahmet Feyyaz Öğütçü. The document also points to Vice Adm. Kadir Sağdıç and Rear Adm. Mehmet Fatih İlğar as the “number two and three men” behind the plot. The two were interrogated last month by İzmir prosecutors as part of the Ergenekon probe. The plan was intended to be put into operation by a team of 41 members of the Naval Forces Command. The plan was divided into four phases: “Preparation,” “Raising Fear,” “Shaping Public Opinion” and “Action.”
As part of the “Preparation” phase, the names and addresses of the country’s prominent non-Muslims were to be determined. The action plan would then move to the second phase. Letters that included threatening messages would be sent to non-Muslim residents of Turkey. In the “Shaping Public Opinion” phase, the AK Party government would be accused of ignoring the “approaching threat” to the country’s non-Muslim population in articles to appear in the media.
The most appalling phase of the plan, “Action,” would include the assassination of prominent non-Muslim figures. At that point, propaganda would point to the AK Party as the cause of the incidents. The party would be accused of falling short of ensuring the security of non-Muslims in the country. The action plan defined Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as an “enemy.”
The indictment also states that a planned bomb attack against young visitors at the Rahmi M. Koç Museum also outlined in the Cage plot would have a more severe impact on society than the 2006 shooting at the Council of State that left a senior judge dead. The Council of State attack is also believed to be the work of Ergenekon. The plan for a bomb attack at the museum was exposed in May of 2009 after a large number of explosives were discovered in a submarine at the museum. A military investigation into the find determined that the explosives at the bottom of the submarine had been forgotten by commandos.
Ergenekon prosecutors, however, decided that the findings of the military investigation were too weak to ease concerns over the discovery of explosives at a museum. The prosecutors examined the submarine at the museum and reached the conclusion that it was not possible for the commandos to forget such a large amount of explosives in a submarine.
The Cage plan noted that the explosion should occur on a day when the museum was visited by a large student group. The indictment states that the planned explosion would serve the purpose of coup plotters in the military.
22/3/2010
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