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Top secret documents found at key suspect's house
Reportedly the Top Secret National Security Policies Document was found in the house of the key suspect behind the attacks against the State Council and Cumhuriyet (Republic) newspaper, Muzaffer Tekin. The top-secret document, also known as the Red Book in Turkey, was previously found in Sauna Gangs leader.Former Army Officer Muzaffer Tekin, who was detained for soliciting the attack against the State Council, was sent to Ankara for interrogation. Some interesting documents were found in the house of Tekin, who was undergoing treatment in Ataturk Hospital. One copy of the Top Secret National Security Policies Document, which was prepared even secretly from the parliament, was found in Muzaffer Tekins house. One of the interesting documents discovered in the search was a membership card belonging to the assailant, Alparslan Aslan. A National Security Policy Document (MGSB) was previously found in a safe belonging to Sauna Gang leader Kasim Zengin, too. Parliamentary Speaker Bulent Arinc had complained of the initial setting up of the MGSB, which has become hugely influential on the countrys domestic and foreign politics, without the information and control of parliament. The documents found in the apartment in Kadikoy belonging to the former military man expelled from the Turkish Armed Forces were mainly composed of nationalist publications: Booklet of No to the Annan Plan, the magazine, Ileri, the newspaper, Turk Solu, National Union Movement booklet, Patriotic Forces Union Movement Regulation, magazine Turkeli. A copy of the intelligence and guerilla hand book found in Aslans house was also found in Tekins house. A group of retired military men were seen at the villa in Beykoz where Tekin was hiding. The houses owner, retired Sergeant Major Mahmut Ozturk, retired Major Zekeriya Ozturk and retired Noncommissioned Officer Musa Cakmak, who were at the villa at the time Tekin was injured, were arrested and appeared at the Beykoz Court yesterday. Osman Yildirim, who appeared before the court charged with assisting Alparlan Aslan in the attack, it is discovered, grew up with the other suspects, Saim Ozden and Nusret Aras. The suspects are also reported to have worked as peddler at a street markets. Meanwhile, some important documents belonging to the Sauna Gang, aside from the Red Book, has been found. Nuri Bozkir, a Special Forces captain, is known to have leaked 68 CDs containing secret military information about the activities in space. General Staff Military Public Prosecutor sought a five to ten year sentence for Bozkir based on the 329th article of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) charging him with the crime of revealing data related to the security and political benefits of the state. The CDs Bozkir leaked to the Gang reportedly contained information about ministers and deputies whose files are held by police, irregular war techniques, and sketches of bridges, tunnels and the blue prints of shopping centers in Ankara. Tekin, the key figure in the attack against the judges in Ankara, was discharged from the hospital Sunday evening. He was undergoing treatment under police supervision, and was later taken to Ankara also under tight security. Tekin was taken to the Sabiha Gokcen Airport in an ambulance cordoned off by police and special security forces, frustrating reporters that were trying to take photographs of the ambulance. Another group of security forces took tight security measures as Tekin was carried off on a stretcher to an air plane of the Turkish Air Lines, THY, scheduled to depart to Ankara at 6.30 pm on Sunday. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-24 |
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