Ergenekon’s case a test of democracy for Turkish society Thursday, 14 August, 2008
Posted by Farbod in Features.Tags: Ergenekon, Istanbul, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish, Umraniye
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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:21:40 GMT
By Yusuf Fernandez, Press TV, Madrid
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On July 25, a Turkish High Criminal Court in Istanbul formally accepted to indict the underground ultranationalist and secularist terrorist network known in the Turkish media as Ergenekon.
The indictment accused 86 people – 47 of whom are currently in prison – of forming or belonging to a terrorist organization or of trying to provoke an armed rebellion to bring down the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The 2,455-page document also accuses the suspects of possessing arms, explosives and classified documents. The arrests took place after a yearlong investigation that began when the police discovered a house full of ammunition and guns in Istanbul’s Umraniye district in July 2007. According to liberal-left newspaper Taraf, the investigation may lead to new waves of arrests. (more…)
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