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| Top secret documents found at key suspect's house |
| 2006-05-24 |
| 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 Gang’s 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 Tekin’s 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 country’s 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 Aslan’s house was also found in Tekin’s house. A group of retired military men were seen at the villa in Beykoz where Tekin was hiding. The house’s 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 |
| #6 Space? Where did they get the technology? EU, Russia, or connected to AQ Khan? |
| Posted by: Danielle 2006-05-24 11:57 |
| #5 Nuri Bozkir, a Special Forces captain, is known to have leaked 68 CDs containing secret military information about the activities in space. In space? Who would have thought Turkey had a Star Warz program. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-05-24 10:55 |
| #4 The top-secret document, also known as the Red Book in Turkey, was previously found in Sauna GangÂ’s leader. Now THAT'S a search... |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-05-24 10:25 |
| #3 Dan, there is a Kurdish link, although its far from clear what that link means. Celebrity singer Ibrahim Tatlises are among those charged with "establishing an armed crime gang" reported The New Anatolian. Charges against Tatlises include "aiding and abetting gang members," and if found guilty he could face 18 years and six months in prison. The Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office finalized an indictment and launched proceedings against a group know as the "sauna gang," which was allegedly involved in blackmailing several prominent figures, some of whom are said to be current Cabinet members. Ibrahim Tatlises was born in a homeless family in Urfa and was raised by his Kurdish mother, following his Arab fatherÂ’s death. Tatlises is one of the biggest stars in Turkey and also sang one time in Kurdish. Link |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-05-24 04:36 |
| #2 Except there was no Kurdish link - the attacks were all against secular targets, which the PKK (the Marxist cult that it is) doesn't usually attack. If the Islamist/Kurdish terrorism in Turkey is all some creation of the military to justify their role in Turkish society (which I find rather far-fetched, given that there are a lot of Islamists and PKK types who clearly wish Ankara ill will), I'll be breathing a lot easier. One thing I'm worried about as an alternate conspiracy theory is that the AKP is trying to implicate the military in the recent Islamist terrorist attacks in order to take the pressure off them. That type of evidence would give the AKP the public outrage it needs to remove their influence from public life, with the Euros continuing to hold the carrot of EU membership (which they don't have any serious idea of actually granting) out to the Turks as an added incentive. As of right now, I don't think there's enough evidence to determine this one way or another and there may be less to this than meets the eye than a bunch of ex-military types gone bad (I mean, it's not like that's never happened before). |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-24 01:09 |
| #1 Looks like confirmation of what some of us have suspected for a while. That much of the terrorism in Turkey results from groups linked to the military and security forces presumably to give them a pretext to crack down on the Kurds and others. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-05-24 00:48 |