Ergenekon (chronology)

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The Ergenekon chronology describes the progress of the events surrounding the Ergenekon process . Using various sources, this is a chronology divided into areas. It starts in 2008.

Arrests

2008

January 22, 2008: Arrest of 33 people, including Veli Küçük (retired general), Kemal Kerinçsiz (lawyer), Güler Kömürcü ( Akşam columnist ), Sevgi Erenerol (press spokeswoman for the Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate ; not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox) , Fikri Karadağ (retired colonel) and Mehmet Zekeriya Öztürk (retired captain). Fuat Turgut, a lawyer representing Yasin Hayal , who is accused of the murder of Hrant Dink , was arrested in Istanbul . Arrest warrants were issued on 26 January 2008 for eight of those arrested, including Veli Küçük, Fikri Karadağ, Sami Hoştan, who was convicted in the Susurluk trial , and lawyer Kemal Kerinçsiz. The journalist Güler Kömürcü was released.

January 23, 2008: 10 arrests in Ankara , 3 in Diyarbakır . Arrest warrants were issued on January 26, 2008 for five of those arrested.

January 29, 2008: arrest warrant for Abdullah Arapoğlu.

February 6, 2008: 2 students were arrested in Antalya. An arrest warrant was issued against Ümit Oğuztan, who was arrested in Alanya .

February 22, 2008: Operation in 4 provinces. Among the 10 arrested were Hayrettin Ertekin (jeweler), Emin Gürses ( University of Sakarya ), Ümit Sayın ( University of Istanbul , chair of forensic medicine ), Vedat Yenerer (journalist), Orhan Tunç and Muammer Karabulut. An arrest warrant was issued on February 26, 2008 against Ümit Sayın, Emin Gürses, Vedat Yenerer, Orhan Tunç (author), Hayrettin Ertekin and Muammer Karabulut.

March 7, 2008: Arrest warrant against Abdülmuttalip Tongar. The number of those arrested rose to 39.

March 21, 2008: 12 people were arrested, including 83-year-old İlhan Selçuk , one of the most famous Turkish journalists, editor-in-chief and publisher of Cumhuriyet daily newspaper ; the former President of Istanbul University , Kemal Alemdaroğlu ; Doğu Perinçek , the leader of the Turkish Labor Party ; Serhan Bolluk, editor-in-chief of the party's Aydınlık magazine and journalist Adnan Akfırat. İlhan Selçuk was released on March 23, 2008. 4 of Dogu Perinçek's bodyguards were also released. Kemal Alemdaroğlu was released the following day. Three people, including Ferit İlsever, were detained.

March 24, 2008: Doğu Perinçek's arrest warrant. He was charged with leading membership in an illegal organization.

March 26th, 2008: Hayati Özcan, (representative of the TV channel Ulusal Kanal in İzmir), Hikmet Çiçek (responsible for press and propaganda at Ulusal Kanal), Nusret Senem (general secretary of İşçi Partisi ) were arrested and arrived on March 29, 2008 in Custody.

April 17, 2008: Ali Kutlu (editor-in-chief of the National Forces Association ( Kuvayı Milliye ) magazine ) surrendered. An arrest warrant has been issued.

May 28, 2008: The wanted Rasim Görüm was in custody.

June 1, 2008: The President of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, Sinan Aygün , was arrested by anti-terrorist police units as part of the Ergenekon investigation on instructions from prosecutors Zekeriya Öz and Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel.

June 8, 2008: Behiç Gürcihan, son of a retired general, was detained.

June 12, 2008: Chief Superintendent FK from Ankara Police Headquarters was arrested.

June 18, 2008: Murat Çağlar was imprisoned. The number of those arrested had risen to 50.

July 1, 2008: Retired Generals Hurşit Tolon and Şener Eruygur , journalist Mustafa Balbay (head of Cumhuriyet's capital office) and Sinan Aygün (chairman of Ankara Chamber of Commerce) were among 23 people arrested in various provinces. Şener Eruygur last held the command of the gendarmerie . He is the chairman of the Ataturk Thoughts Association ( Ataturkçü Düşünce Derneği ). Former MP Turhan Çömez, who represents opposition positions in the ruling AKP party, escaped arrest because he was attending a language course in London at the time of the operation .

July 4, 2008: Nine people, including retired Generals Hurşit Tolon and Şener Eruygur, were detained. The journalist Mustafa Balbay was among the 14 released.

July 1, 2008: Kuddusi Okkır, who was arrested on June 20, 2007, was hospitalized for his cancer. He was released on July 1, 2008 and died on July 6, 2008.

July 14, 2008: At the appeal of the lawyers, Sinan Aygün and Barbaros Hayrettin Altıntaş, who were arrested on July 4, 2008, were released.

August 15, 2008: Three people, including retired Colonel Arif Doğan , were arrested during police operations in İstanbul and Ankara . He and a Muzaffer Ö. were arrested on August 17th. Sadettin S. was released. Doğan is said to be one of the founders of JITEM .

August 29, 2008: Ferit İlsever, deputy chairman of İP, was released for health reasons.

September 18, 2008: 18 people were arrested in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir , Mersin and Hakkâri . Among them are supposed to be 5 lieutenants and a military student. 11 of those arrested were held in custody on September 21 and 22 .

September 23, 2008: 13 arrests in Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir, including Tuncay Özkan and Gürbüz Çapan. Six of those arrested were detained on September 27, including journalist Tuncay Özkan, former mayor of Esenyurt (Istanbul district), Gürbüz Çapan, and former director of the organized crime department, Adil Serdar Saçan. So far in custody: 68 people.

2009

January 7, 2009: By order of the 9th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul, the 10th wave of arrests took place in 12 provinces. 37 people were arrested. During the search of Colonel Mustafa Dönmez's apartment in Sapanca County , Sakarya , 22 hand grenades , 4 pistols , 8,300 rounds of ammunition and a Kalashnikov were found. Mustafa Dönmez was in Ankara and evaded arrest. Were among those arrested: Erdal Şenel (retired general), Tuncer Kılınç (retired general), Yalçın Küçük , İbrahim Şahin and his nephew Erdal Şahin, the journalists Engin Aydın and Tuncay Özkan, Kemal Yavuz (retired general), former YÖK President Kemal Gürüz the captain Muhammet Sarıkaya, the retired Supreme İlyas Çınar and Ataman Yıldırım, Mehmet Koral, İlhami Ümit Handan, Ozkan Bektaş, Coşkun Umur, the retired Supreme Levent Göktaş and Hüseyin Vural, Ergin Erkılınçoğlu (by the police in Izmir ), the major Erbay Çolakoğlu (from the Navy in Foça ), the policeman OYŞ., The teacher OS, the chairman of the Contemporary Turkey Party, Hasan Ataman Yıldırım, and the chairman of the Great Unity Party ( BBP ) for Istanbul Province, Hüdayi Ünlüer.

Weapons were also searched for during police operations. Weapons were found on a property belonging to İbrahim Şahin near Ankara . They were identified as pistols that were bought by Israel and that had disappeared. That happened when İbrahim Şahin headed the department for special offensives (tr: Özel Harekât Dairesi ). Additional weapons were found during additional excavations in the area.

January 11, 2009: Of the 33 arrested, 17, including İbrahim Şahin, Yalçın Küçük and Mustafa Levent Göktaş, were detained. When he was questioned, İbrahim Şahin said that General Bekir Kalyoncu (commandant in Diyarbakır ) had asked him to form a force of 300 soldiers under 30 years of age. If he hadn't been arrested, he would have “disappeared” with this force for six months for a mission.

January 13, 2009: Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Dönmez surrendered. Based on a sketch, explosives and weapons were found in Ankara.

January 15, 2009: Retired General Levent Ersöz, who had fled to Russia, was caught. He is believed to be responsible for many unsolved murders in the 1990s. He began his pre-trial detention on January 16. He was hospitalized on January 18, 2009 with a heart condition.

January 22, 2009: The 11th wave of arrests took place in 13 provinces. 26 people, including the chairman of the Türk Metal union, Mustafa Özbek, were arrested. Alongside 7 soldiers and 10 police officers, he was taken into custody on January 24, 2008. The number of inmates had reached 100.

January 23, 2009: Yalçın Küçük and Engin Aydın were released from custody.

February 4, 2009: Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Dönmez was taken into custody.

February 24, 2009: Abdurrahim Doğru from Dicle University was detained.

March 6, 2009: Mustafa Balbay (Cumhuriyet Gazetesi) and Neriman Aydın were detained.

April 13, 2009: As part of the 12th wave of arrests, other people were arrested in April 2009, such as the economics professor Erol Manisalı , the deans Fatih Hilmioğlu , Mehmet Haberal and, for a short time, the doctor Turkan Saylan , who was then suffering from cancer . Many of those arrested belonged to the Association for the Promotion of a Contemporary Lifestyle ( Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği ÇYDD).

April 17, 2009: 8 people, including Mehmet Haberal from Başkent University, were detained. Ayşe Yüksel from ÇYDD, who was also arrested, was released on April 24, 2009.

April 22, 2009: Weapons and explosives were found during excavations on a site in Beykoz (Istanbul) owned by the İstek Foundation (chairman Bedrettin Dalan ). Of those arrested, three officers, one of whom was retired, were arrested on April 25, 2009.

May 25, 2009: Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Türkan Ecevit surrendered and was imprisoned on May 27, 2009.

June 4, 2009: Erol Manisalı was released for health reasons.

November 9, 2009: Deniz Yıldırım (Aydınlık magazine) and Ufuk Akkaya (Ulusal Kanal TV station) were detained.

2010

January 27, 2010: Colonel Recep Gençoğlu, commandant of the gendarmerie in Eskişehir , was arrested on the orders of the public prosecutor in Erzurum . The arrest is said to be due to his service in Erzincan and the investigation against the İsmailağa community .

January 31, 2010: Colonel Recep Gençoğlu was released. However, he must expect charges.

February 13, 2010: Murat Yıldız was arrested by two NCOs arrested in Erzincan on February 8, 2010 in custody. AS was released but faced charges. Two days ago the chairman of the hunters' club in Erzincan, YB, was released.

February 15, 2010: After weapons and ammunition were found in the village of Ortatepe, İliç County (Erzincan), the village chief and head of the village guards Turgut Kuruçaylıoğlu (58) was arrested. He was released after the interrogation. The retired sergeant Nejdet Özmen has now been arrested in Kırıkkale and taken to Erzurum . An arrest warrant was issued against him there.

February 16, 2010: Erzincan's Chief Prosecutor İlhan Cihaner was arrested after his office was searched. He was detained the next day.

March 31, 2010: After being questioned by the public prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, Colonel Ahmet Zeki Üçok was taken into custody and sent to Maltepe prison .

April 3, 2010: At the objection of the prosecutor, the previously released Yusuf Erikel and Hayri Bildik were arrested and taken to prison.

April 8, 2010: Özkan Kurt, who allegedly threatened public prosecutor Zekeriya Öz with death by fax, was taken into custody.

April 30, 2010: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul issued an order on April 29, 2010 for the arrest of Colonel Dursun Çiçek. He is among the defendants in the 8th complaint against Ergenekon. He turned himself in and was taken to Hasdal Military Prison (Istanbul). The arrest was in connection with the action plan to fight against fundamentalism (tr: İrtica ile Mücadele Eylem Planı ), of which initially only a photocopy existed. The handwritten document is said to come from Colonel Dursun Çiçek.

June 5, 2010: After the interrogation by public prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, the 11th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul issued arrest warrants against lawyers Mehmet Cengiz, Ali Hadi Emre, Tülay Bekar and Kutbettin Kaya. Retired Colonel Canfer Balçık and Hüseyin Yıldırım have been released.

2011

February 18, 2011: Soner Yalçın , journalist and owner of OdaTV, Barış Terkoğlu who runs the website, Ayhan Bozkurt and Barış Pehlivan, who were arrested on Monday (February 13) as part of the Ergenekon investigation, were interrogated by the prosecutor and were upheld Ayhan Bozkurt was subsequently in custody. The American Ambassador Philip Crowley and the American State Department have criticized the arrests related to freedom of the press.

March 3, 2011: 9 journalists were arrested. In addition to Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, Sait Çakır (OdaTV) and Yalçın Küçük (book author, who is already one of the defendants in the Ergenekon trial) were arrested in Istanbul . In Ankara it was Doğan Yurdakul, Mumtaz Idil, Coşkun Musluk, Müyesser Yıldız and İklim Bayraktar (all from Oda TV).

March 6, 2011: Nedim Şener, Ahmet Şık , Müesser Yıldız, Doğan Yurdakul, Suat Çakır, Yalçın Küçük and Coşkun Musluk were held in custody on charges of belonging to the secret organization Ergenekon. The draft of a book by Ahmet Şık entitled "The Imam's Army" (tr: İmamın Ordusu ) was banned, but appeared on the Internet shortly afterwards.

March 20, 2011: Of the 9 people who were arrested in connection with the murder at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya on April 18, 2007, 7 were taken into custody, including the former commandant of the Malatya gendarmerie, Mehmet Ülger, and Ruhi Abat from the theological faculty at Inönü University.

March 11, 2011: Kaşif Kozinoğlu, the Middle East intelligence officer, was detained by the 14th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul. His name is said to be mentioned in documents found on OdaTV.

2012

January 5, 2012: The 12th Chamber of Serious Crimes in Istanbul took action against the former chief of staff and commander of the Turkish army, İlker Başbuğ , after 7 hours of interrogation by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor on the "Internet Memorandum" (tr: " İnternet Andıcı ") Arrest warrant issued. Başbuğ was detained in Silivri Prison and denied the allegations.

Resignation of the Turkish military leadership

In July 2011, the leaders of three of the four branches of the Turkish military resigned in protest against the long-term imprisonment of 250 officers for alleged conspiracies against the ruling party AKP and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government.

The indictments

Wikisource: Ergenekon indictments  - sources and full texts (Turkish)

Some of the indictments are very extensive.

July 14, 2008: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul received an indictment against 86 people (48 in custody). Among the actions aimed at overthrowing the government, the attack on the State Council (Turkey) and the bombing of the Cumhuriyet newspaper were listed. The indictment of 2,455 pages is based on documents in 441 files. In addition to allegations of attempted overthrow, the accused were also charged with membership or support for an armed organization, possession of explosives , possession of secret documents, incitement to military disobedience and public incitement to hatred and hostility of the people . The investigations into 36 suspects have been closed.

The detained defendants were: Veli Küçük, Doğu Perinçek, Kemal Kerinçsiz, Muzaffer Tekin, Mehmet Zekeriya Öztürk, Oktay Yıldırım, Mehmet Demirtaş, Mahmut Öztürk, Gazi Güder, Halil Behiç Gürcihan, Öztalızgail, Mehmet Yıldıder, Halil Behiç Gürcihanoy Öztalızil, Ykirydıç Gürcihan, Oztalızgil, Ykiri Yıldızgıder, Halil Behiç Gürcihanoy Öztalızgail Yüksek, Muzaffer Şenocak, Fikret Emek, Sevgi Erenerol, Muammer Karabulut, Vedat Yenerer, Ümit Oğustan, Sami Hoştan, Vatan Bölükbaşoğlu, Orhan Tunç, Ümit Sayın, Enmetin Gürinses, Serhan Özcanik, Hayati Çanık, Hayati Çnçrat, Mehmetrat , Nusret Senem, Abdülmuttalip Tonçer, Fikri Karadağ, Hüseyin Görüm, Erkut Ersoy, Kahraman Şahin, Erol Ölmez, Abdullah Arapoğulları, Oğuz Alpaslan Abdülkadir, Muhammet Yüce, Selim Akkurt, Hüseyin Kimut Görğ, AliÇlu Göruz.

The accused but not in custody were: İlhan Selçuk, Kemal Alemdaroğlu, Ferid İlsever, Ali Yiğit, Ayşe Asuman Özdemir, Kemal Şahin, Mehmet Murat Yücel, Feridun Refik Nuhoğlu, Hayrullah, Mahmğud Özgurdul, Fuet Arulsmanğ, Tuçrul Çanğlu, Tuçrulsman Dlanak , Tuncay Hacıbektaşoğlu, Saipir Debzlelvidze (Çeçen), İsmail Eksik, Guler Kömürcü, Emin Caner Yiğit, Sedat Peker, Semih Tufan Gülaltay, Ali Yasak, İbrahim Benli, Mahir Çayik, Fuydınat Gergin, Yufıfirut, Fuyan Güngör., Özkan, Satılmış Balkaş, Asım Demir, Atilla Aksu, Erdal İrten, Raif Görüm, Yusuf Görüm, Recep Gökhan Sipahioğlu, Coşkun Çalık, Ayhan Çelik, Tanju Okan, Yaşar Arslanköylö, İhsan.

July 26, 2008: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul accepted the indictment and set the first hearing on October 20, 2008. According to a secret witness No. 9, Veli Küçük is said to have given the order for the events in the Gazi district . The prosecution also alleges assassinations were planned on General Yaşar Büyükanıt , Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , politician Ahmet Türk , Patriarch Bartholomew , writer Orhan Pamuk and journalist Fehmi Koru .

The prosecutors could not determine what and when the explosives were found in Ümraniye (Istanbul) on June 12, 2007 and which became the starting point of the investigation.

2009

January 14, 2009: As part of the investigation, the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul requested the files on the murder of General Bahtiyar Aydın on October 22, 1993 in Lice County ( Diyarbakır ) and the murder of Colonel Rıdvan Özden on August 14 1995 in the district of Savur ( Mardin ).

January 23, 2009: The General Directorate for Security and the Supreme Command of the Gendarmerie informed the Istanbul court that they were not aware of an organization called Ergenekon. The public prosecutor in Kocaeli reported that during the time Veli Küçük was stationed in Kocaeli, the murders of Murat Baysal, Remziye Kurnaz, Hüseyin Oruç and Hasan Doğan were registered as murders of unrecognized perpetrators.

March 8, 2009: The second indictment with 1909 pages, in which the persons are accused, who from the 6-8. Arrests were affected, the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul. 56 suspects were affected, 21 of whom were in custody. The indictment was served on the attorneys on March 25, 2009. First and foremost among the defendants is retired General Şener Eruygur. The start of the proceedings was set for July 20, 2009.

2010

January 27, 2010: The 12th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul accepted the indictment of 17 people, five of whom were in custody in connection with ammunition found in Poyrazköy ( Istanbul ) between April 21 and 28, 2009. The document has 300 pages and is based on documents in 24 files. The first hearing was scheduled for April 9, 2010. The accused are Tayfun Duman, Ergin Geldikaya, Levent Bektaş, Mustafa Turhan Ecevit, Ercan Kireçtepe, Eren Günay, Erme Onat, İbrahim Koray Özyurt, Şafak Yürekli, Muharrem Nuri Alacalı, Dil Sörunggeç, Dil Sörunggeç, Ms. Cura, Sadettin Doğan, Ferudun Arslan and Ali Türkşen. The allegations range from unauthorized possession of weapons, membership in an armed organization to overthrowing parliament.

February 4, 2010: The 12th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul accepted indictments of 19 people, nine of them in custody in connection with planned assassinations of two admirals and possession of TNT and drugs. The first hearing was scheduled for May 7, 2010. It will then be decided whether the proceedings will be merged with the Poyrazköy proceedings. The 166-page indictment names the following defendants: Faruk Akın, Sinan Efe Noyan, Alperen Erdoğan, Burak Düzalan, Yakut Aksoy, Tarık Ayabakan, Ülkü Öztürk, Ali Seyhur Güçlü ve Sezgin Demirel, Fatih Göktaçi, Burak Amithaş, Burak Amithaş Oğuz Dağnık, Koray Kemiksiz, Levent Çakın and Mehmet Orhan Yücel. They are charged with possession of ammunition and drugs, unauthorized storage of personal information, and membership of an armed organization. The trial will take place in the Beşiktaş courthouse .

June 15, 2010: The trial of 33 defendants, 3 of whom were in custody, began in front of the 12th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul . They are said to have been involved in the action plan cage (tr: Kafes Eylem Planı ). The court admitted the Agos newspaper as a joint plaintiff. The 65-page indictment sees the officers Ahmet Feyyaz Öğütçü, Kadir Sağdıç and Mehmet Fatih İlgar as the “masterminds” who worked directly with the armed organization “Ergenekon”. The other defendants: Mücahit Erakyol, Deniz Erki, Tanju Veli Aydın, Emre Sezenler, Hüseyin Doğancı, İsmail Bak, Metin Samancı, Levent Gülmen, Aydın Ayhan Saraçoğlu, Bülent Tın, Bora Coşkun, Emrebatep Öztharat, Murrekimeli Halil Özsaraç, Gürol Yurdunal, Ümit Özbek, Bülent Karaoğlu, Daylan Muslu, Hüseyin Erol, Mehmet İnce, Alpay Belleyici, İsmail Zütü Tümer, Levent Olcaner, Özgür Erken, Metin Fidan, Turk Doorken Metinğanca, Mesut Kaffesanurğanca is armed and membership in a Mesut Kaffesanurğanca Organization charged.

October 8, 2010: The Istanbul prosecutor Kasım İlimoğlu sent an indictment against 2 defendants with the request to merge with the Ergenekon trial to the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul . The trial of the unprisoned Bekir Çelik and Erhan Gönenci was scheduled to begin on November 29, 2010. The proceedings concern a planned assassination attempt on the Armenian jeweler Minas Durmazguler in Sivas . In addition to the two defendants, İbrahim Şahin, Oğuz Bulut and Ersin Gönenci, who were accused in the 2nd Ergenekon trial, were also involved.

December 10, 2010: The 12th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul has the 342-page indictment against Gülseven Yaşer, former chairman of the Foundation for Contemporary Education ( Çağdaş Eğitim Vakfı ), Ayşe Yüksel, from the university in Van and chairwoman there in the Association for the Support of a Contemporary Life ( Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği ÇYDD), the retired Colonel Aydın Ortabaşı and the members of the 68 Foundation Mustafa Namık Kemal Boya, Halime Filiz Meriçli, Hamdi Gökhan Ecevit, Ömer Sadun Okyaltır, who are members of Nur Gerıkel the armed terrorist organization "Ergenekon" is charged, accepted. It was found that Gülven Yaşer is volatile. The first hearing was scheduled for March 18, 2011. The Chamber will meet in the courthouse in Beşiktaş and will later decide whether this case should be merged with the Poyrazköy case.

2011

January 31, 2011: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Criminal Matters in Istanbul started the trial of Yusuf Erikel, who was in custody, and the unprisoned defendants Hayri Bildik, Aydoğan Aksüngü, Maruf , in the meeting room that was built in Silivri prison Şinik, Recep Taylan, Hakan Arıkan, Hakan Akdoğan and Adem Uzun. Prosecutors Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel and Nihat Taşkın read the 147-page indictment. During the technical supervision of Yusuf Erikel, who had previously represented the defendants Durmuş Ali Özoğlu, Kemal Aydın and Neriman Aydın, and the other suspects, organizational connections emerged. Aggravated life imprisonment was applied for against the defendant Yusuf Erikel for attempting to overthrow the government. The other defendants are expected to receive sentences of between 7.5 and 15 years in prison for membership in an armed organization.

March 1, 2011: In early March 2011, the 12th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul accepted a 34-page indictment against four defendants, prepared by prosecutor Cihan Kansız. The investigation goes back to weapons finds in August 2010. At the places that the defendant Ulaş Özel had named, u. a. a Kalashnikov , several hand grenades and 2 Glock 17 pistols were found. According to the indictment, Ulaş Özel had belonged to the armed organization TİKKO , had shown remorse and then worked for JİTEM with other "renegades" . According to the indictment, the defendants had contact with people who are indicted in other Ergenekon trials. The defendant Hüseyin Yanç is said to have been a member of the PKK branch Kongra-Gel before working for JİTEM , while Okan İşgör is said to have belonged to the radical Islamic organization İBDA-C .

April 6, 2011: The imprisoned Özkan Kurt was tried in front of the 14th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul . He is said to have threatened public prosecutor Zekeriya Öz in his capacity as chief prosecutor in the Ergenekon case. The court decided to merge it with the main proceedings. The procedure is based on a fax dated March 31, 2010 that ends with the sentence: ″ You will end up like Abdi İpekçi and Uğur Mumcu ″.

May 27, 2011: In connection with documents found during the search of the naval headquarters in Gölcük , there was another indictment which was accepted by the 12th Chamber of Serious Crimes in Istanbul. The first hearing was scheduled for August 23rd. The aim here is to decide whether the proceedings will be merged with the Poyrazköy proceedings. Some of the defendants are charged in both this and Schlaghammer cases and are in custody in the latter case. They are Admiral Kadir Sağdıç, Colonel Ali Türkşen, Colonel Hüseyin Hançer, Sergeant Halil Cura, Corporal İsmail Bak and the worker Tanju Veli Aydın. Major Kemalettin Yakar, Major Behçet Altıntaş, Major Mehmet Cem Cağlar and Sergeant Erdinç Yıldız are in custody on the basis of the current indictments.

July 22, 2011: After the investigation under the title “Internet Memorandum” (tr: “ İnternet Andıcı ”), prosecutor Cihan Kansız brought charges before the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul. At the same time, he requested that this procedure be merged with the "Action Plan to Combat Response" procedure. Among the 19 defendants, 14 are active duty officers, 4 retired officers and one civil servant. You are charged under Article 312 of the Turkish Criminal Code of attempting to overthrow the government. It says aggravated life imprisonment.

August 8, 2011: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul issued orders for arrest against 14 defendants from the Internet Memorandum trial. The Chamber dealt with the prosecutor's request and decided to merge this process with the “Action Plan to Combat Response” procedure. The first hearing was scheduled for September 12, 2011.

August 26, 2011: In a 134-page indictment, 14 people, 12 of them in custody, were accused of being the founders, leaders, members or supporters of the "armed terrorist organization Ergenekon". The charges stem from searches of the OdaTV news portal and the arrests of mostly journalists in February and March 2011. The detained defendants include Yalçın Küçük , Soner Yalçın , Ahmet Şık , Hanefi Avcı , Nedim Şener , Barış Terkoğlu, Barış Pehlivan, Doğan Yurdakul, Müesser Uğur, Coşkun Musluk, Sait Çifakızinoğ and Kaşifakızino. Ahmet Mümtaz İdil and İklim Ayfer Kaleli are accused but not in custody. According to the indictment, journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener are accused of helping the terrorist organization. This carries a sentence of 7.5 to 15 years in prison. Yalçın Küçük is accused of being the head of the organization. The case against nine suspects has been dropped. The indictment written by prosecutor Cihan Kansız is the first indictment presented to the newly established 16th Chamber of Serious Crimes.

September 12, 2011: The first hearing was scheduled for November 22, 2011 and is to take place at the 16th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Çağlayan (Istanbul).

November 22, 2011: In the first hearing, the lawyers filed a petition for bias against the presiding judge Resul Çakır. The court decided to send the request for bias to the 17th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul and adjourned to December 26, 2011. Only after a decision on the request for bias should a decision be made on a possible release of the accused.

Court hearings

With the exception of one in Erzurum , all proceedings take place before the Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul . In Istanbul, chambers 9-14 are the successors of the state security courts that existed until 2004 and had the numbers 1-6. The big trials take place in a courtroom in Silivri prison. In June 2009 a sports hall was converted into a courtroom so that there is enough space for everyone involved and the audience.

June 22, 2007: The 11th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Ankara tried 8 defendants for the attack on the State Council on May 17, 2006 and three bomb attacks on the Cumhuriyet newspaper in Istanbul. Since the discovery of weapons and explosives in Ümraniye (Istanbul) could be related to the attacks, the court requested the investigation files against officers Muzaffer Tekin and Mahmut Öztürk. Mehmet Tekin was arrested as part of the investigation in Ankara, but was released. The court denied the release from detention of the defendants Osman Yıldırım, Aykut Metin Şükre and Tekin Irşi.

2008

October 20, 2008: The Ergenekon trial began before the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul . Further meetings took place on October 23 and 27. On October 27, 2008, the reading of the indictment began. The reading lasted until November 13, 2008.

November 18, 2008: According to the testimony of NCO Mahmut Öztürk, his release from prison was ordered.

December 15, 2008: At the 26th session, Defendant No. 1, General Veli Küçük, spoke for the first time. He claimed that Tuncay Güney's testimony was received under pressure and served a scenario. With reference to 40 years of service "for the Turkish nation", he rejected the allegations as "completely unfounded". Not he is the goal, but the non-ecclesiastical and independent republic. There were no murders of unrecognized perpetrators (tr: faili meçhul ) in his region . If so, then he explained to her. The name JITEM is persistently used in the indictment . The intelligence department of the gendarmerie did not develop any extra-legal activities. This is an attack on the Turkish armed forces .

December 30, 2008: Lecturer Ümit Sayın testified. He denied the allegations.

2009

January 5, 2009: In the 36th session, Ümit Sayın was interviewed. He accused the Federation of Workers from Turkey in Europe and Şebnem Korur Fincancı of separatist activities. You had spoken of the genocide of Pontus Greeks , the Armenians and the Kurds .

January 23, 2009: The defendants Vedat Yenerer, Orhan Tunç and Muammer Karabulut were released from custody.

February 3, 2009: The court decided not to disclose the names on a list held by the Secret Service on File 442.

February 6, 2009: Retired General Hurşit Tolon was released for lack of evidence.

April 3, 2009: The court imposed a publication ban on Tuncay Güney's testimony from 2001.

April 7, 2009: The tapes of Tuncay Güney's interrogation (parts previously labeled missing) suggest torture. Adil Serdar Saçan, who headed the organized crime department at the Istanbul Police Headquarters, is identified as the torturer .

April 21, 2009: Kemal Kerinçsiz finished his testimony, which he started at the 66th session, at the 78th session.

April 20, 2009: The 11th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Ankara resumed the case of the attack on the State Council in May 2006 after the 9th Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation overturned the verdict. It then ordered the merger with the Ergenekon proceedings in Istanbul .

May 9, 2009: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul ordered the release of the defendants Halil Behiç Gürcihan, Rasim Görüm, Abdullah Arapoğulları, Oğuz Alparslan Abdülkadir and Bekir Öztürk and linked the proceedings with the Ergenekon for the attack on the State Council -Procedure.

June 13, 2009: The same court ordered the release of Mete Yalazangil, Mehmet Adnan Akfırat, Ali Kutlu and Murat Çağlar.

June 25, 2009: The dismissal of the former rector of Uludağ University, Mustafa Yurtkuran, was ordered after the lawyers' 4th motion for health reasons.

July 20, 2009: The proceedings for the 2nd indictment with 56 defendants began. The court decided to combine the proceedings on the 3rd indictment with 52 suspects (37 of them in custody) and to hand them over to the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul.

August 4, 2009: The 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul accepted the indictments, linked the trials and set the negotiations to begin on September 7, 2009.

August 28, 2009: In the proceedings for the first indictment, the court decided the proceedings against the “United Forces of Patriotic Forces” (tr: Vatansever Kuvvetler Güç Birliği ), which was pending before the 11th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Ankara to join this procedure.

October 19, 2009: In the first indictment, the court ordered the release of Erol Ölmez, Kahraman Şahin and Ümit Oğuztan.

November 25, 2009: Lieutenant Onur Özdemir and NCOs İlhan Bulayır and Murat Eke, as well as police officers Kemalettin Balcı and Bülent Güngördü, were released from custody in the process of the 2nd indictment . The court adjourned to December 14, 2009.

December 30, 2009: The detained defendant Osman Yıldırım was interrogated during the first indictment trial. The court adjourned to January 25, 2009.

2010

January 15, 2010: Adil Serdar Saçan was released from custody at the 31st hearing in the 2nd Ergenekon trial. He had been detained since September 2008. He is accused of membership in an armed organization.

January 30, 2010: In the main trial, Emin Gürses, Ümit Sayın and Muhammet Yüce were released from custody. The hearing was adjourned to February 22, 2010. At the hearing on December 7, 2010, Ümit Sayın said that he was the secret witness with the code name “Anadolu”. His lawyer then resigned his mandate.

February 20, 2010: Kenan Temur was released from custody in the second Ergenekon trial. The trial was adjourned to March 8th.

March 8, 2010: On August 6, 2009, Levent Ersöz's lawyer, Ali Rıza Dizdar, “exposed” the accused YD as a secret witness. He then said that he had testified to the police under psychological pressure. Also in the indictment against the public prosecutor İlhan Cihaner, 12 secret witnesses, whose statements take up 55 pages, are of great importance. Three of them have now been "exposed".

March 19, 2010: Colonel Mustafa Koç was released from custody in the 2nd Ergenekon trial . 40 defendants remained in custody. The trial was adjourned to April 5th.

April 17, 2010: In the 2nd Ergenekon trial, Hüseyin Keskin and Cihan Arık, who had been in custody for 18 months, were released. The trial was postponed until May 3rd.

June 3, 2010: In the 2nd Ergenekon proceedings, the retired General Levent Ersöz read out his 350-page testimony via video conference from the hospital of the Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty. In it he denied secret meetings and the like. a. with journalists from Cumhuriyet.

June 18, 2010: The 11th Criminal Chamber at the Court of Cassation ordered the release of all detained defendants following the merging of the prosecutor İlhan Cihaner's “abuse of office” proceedings and the proceedings against him and others in Erzurum . In addition to İlhan Cihaner, these were: Recep Gençoğlu, Nedim Ersan, Ersin Erkut, Murat Yıldız, Sabri Barkın İnce, Kıvılcım Üstel, Şenol Bozkurt, Şinasi Demir and Orhan Esirgen. The 2nd Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Erzurum was warned that the file had not yet been sent to Ankara.

July 22, 2010: The chairman of the International Peace Council "Nikolaus" (tr: Uluslararası Noel Baba Barış Konseyi ) Muammer Karabulut has initiated proceedings for compensation against three public prosecutors in the Ergenekon case. He had been in custody for 11 months because of her, although it was clear that no secret documents were found on him. But that was only revealed in the 41st hearing after 11 months in prison. The injured party asked each of the three public prosecutors Zekeriya Öz, Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel and Nihat Taşkın 30,000 lira as compensation. The procedure will be carried out in Antalya .

September 23, 2010: A 6-member delegation of judges, prosecutors and lawyers from Germany came to the courthouse in Beşiktaş to hear Semih Genç, who is a witness in the Ergenekon trial, as a witness. The interrogation as part of the administrative assistance is in connection with proceedings before the Düsseldorf Regional Court against a leading member of the DHKP-C , Faruk Ereren. The public prosecutor in Germany accuses him of being involved in the murder of two Turkish officials in April 1993 and 11 suicide bombings in Istanbul and Ankara between 2001 and 2005.

Semih Genç broke out of Bayrampaşa prison in 1993 as a supposed leading member of the DHKP / C; was later captured in Romania and extradited to Turkey. In his interrogation on April 8, 2008 regarding the Ergenekon trial, he claimed to have met Sedat Peker and Ülkü Gökalp Güney, who were accused in the Ergenekon trial, together with a member of the AKP in Bucharest and to have returned to Turkey because of a deal with them .

September 30, 2010: In the 2nd Ergenekon trial, the defendant Durmuş Ali Özoğlu announced that he would provide important details on unresolved murders at the upcoming session. He will say who killed Eşref Bitlis , Cem Ersever and Turgut Özal . Since his notes are in a safe place, he cannot do this in the current hearing.

October 1, 2010: The defendant Durmuş Ali Özoğlu said of the unsolved murders: Eşref Bitlis died because his plane was shot down. Cem Ersever was Eşref Pasha's husband and was also killed. That has nothing to do with Ergenekon, but was done by a unit that was trained in the anti-terror department.

October 7, 2010: In the 88th session of the 2nd Ergenekon proceedings, the trade unionist Mustafa Özbek, as well as Fahri Kepek and Ayhan Atabek were released from custody. Mustafa Özbek had been in custody since January 25, 2009. 30 defendants were ordered to remain in custody and the proceedings were postponed until November 1.

October 23, 2010: In the Ergenekon ( Erzincan ) proceedings, without a decision to exclude the public, the press was not admitted to the hearing before the 2nd Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Erzurum . The court adjourned to December 24, 2010 as the dispute pending at the Court of Cassation was not resolved over jurisdiction.

November 2, 2010: In the 90th session of the 2nd Ergenekon trial, the court decided to use the testimony of retired Colonel Arif Doğan , who had been heard by prosecutor Zekeriya Öz on "unsolved murders" (tr: faili meçhul ) and was postponed to November 4, 2010.

December 2, 2010: At the 165th hearing, Alparslan Aslan, who is accused of being a shooter in the assassination attempt on the State Council, spoke up and applied to benefit from the Law of Repentance. On multiple requests from the presiding judge to provide details, he limited himself to stating that he repented.

December 9, 2010: At the 169th meeting, the retired General Veli Küçük spoke up . He complained that a scheme made by the MIT secret service based on the testimony of Tuncay Güney, who lives in Canada, was not disclosed because of the positions held by the persons mentioned there. But he knows that people like the former Chief of Staff Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu , the former Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and Mehmet Ağar were among them. He himself is mentioned in the scheme, but there are people below and above him. His commanding authority would be kept secret. He demanded that the people he named, whose names were in the scheme, testify as witnesses in court.

December 25, 2010: A trial against 119 defendants, almost all of whom belong to the İP Labor Party, began in front of the 2nd criminal chamber in Silivri . During the 149th hearing in the first Ergenekon trial on June 7, 2010, they left the room in protest against the arrest of defense attorney Mehmet Cengiz and shouted slogans. They are charged with obstructing official work and indirectly insulting officials. You can expect a sentence of between 2 and 5 years in prison. The hearing was adjourned to March 23, 2011.

2011

11 January 2011: In the prison of Silivri the prisoners on remand from the proceedings “wet signature” (tr: Islak İmza , part of the Ergenekon investigation into machine forged signatures) and the illegal organization Devrimci Karargah are to be transferred. They are to come from L-type prisons 4 and 5 to prison No. 1, which has been converted into a type F prison .

March 30, 2011: Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, who has special powers, has been transferred to the deputy of the chief prosecutor in İstanbul. Turan Çolakkadı took his place.

Turkey's best-known and most controversial public prosecutor, Zekeriya Öz, has been promoted from his position as a lawyer with special powers in one of the most important political processes in Turkey in recent decades, the Ergenekon trial.

April 1, 2011: In the 2nd Ergenekon trial, the lawyer Yusuf Erikel was released from custody. He had been detained for about a year. The request for release from prison was based on his illness (cancer).

April 8, 2011: In the 2nd Ergenekon case, the court decided to release the entrepreneur Hüdayi Ünlüer, who had been in custody for 2 years. The presiding judge, Köksal Şengün, spoke out in favor of the dismissal of a further 19 defendants, including Mustafa Balbay and Tuncay Özkan, but was outvoted. The court adjourned on May 9, 2011.

May 24, 2011: On May 23 and 24, 2011, the 13th Grand Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul heard the testimony of a secret witness with the code name as part of the “handwritten signature” (tr: Islak İmza ) procedure against 7 accused "Efe" on. The witness alleged that there were meetings of the military, businessmen and politicians in Erzincan, which were chaired by Chief Prosecutor İlhan Cihaner. Cihaner also gave orders to (violent) actions that should lead to chaos in society. The proceedings were postponed until May 26, 2011.

July 25, 2011: The 12th Grand Chamber of Serious Crimes in Istanbul held the first session in the trial of four defendants in connection with weapons found in Şile. Defendant Ulaş Özel said that he worked for the JİTEM commandant office for the Elazığ area after becoming a defector from TİKKO . He was taken from detention for operations for three to four months. For every person killed they would have received money. In the operations in which he took part, 35 TİKKO members and 90 PKK members were killed. According to Ulaş Özel, an arrest warrant was issued against Okan İşgör and the PKK defector Hüseyin Yanç. The suspended police officer Yusuf Ethem Akbulut is the only one not in custody. The defendant Okan İşgör claimed to have spent 18 months with members of the İBDA-C in Metris Prison (Istanbul) . Members of the intelligence service visited him and he made a 400-page testimony. Hüseyin Yanç said in court that generals were visiting him. One of them, Osman Eker, was like a father to him.

November 22, 2011: In front of the 16th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul, the first hearing took place in the proceedings against 13 defendants, 11 of them in custody. The accused, among them journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener , are accused of membership and support of the Ergenekon secret society. The lawyers filed a petition for bias against presiding judge Resul Çakır. The court decided to send the request for bias to the 17th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul and adjourned to December 26, 2011. Only after a decision on the request for bias should a decision be made on a possible release of the accused.

2012

March 12, 2012: In the proceedings against the OdaTV portal, the journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener were released from prison, as well as Coşkun Musluk and Sait Çakır, reporters for the news portal. The proceedings were postponed until June 18, 2012.

April 5, 2012: The trial known as the “Action Plan to Fight Fundamentalism” (tr: İrtica ile Mücadele Eylem Planı ) was merged with the 2nd Ergenekon trial, so that the number of defendants rose to 147. 33 of them are in custody.

September 14, 2012: In the proceedings against OdaTV, employees Barış Terkoğlu and Barış Pehlivan were released from custody. It was the 13th hearing before the 16th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul. Soner Yalçın, Hanefi Avcı and Yalçın Küçük remained in custody . The negotiations were postponed to November 16, 2012.

October 15, 2012: In the Poyrazköy case, the 23rd hearing took place before the 12th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul. It included 18 detainees (8 of them based on arrest warrants in other trials) and 20 defendants who were not detained. Witnesses were heard.

November 6, 2012: In the 255th session of the main trial before the 13th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul, the former commander of the Kurdistan People's Liberation Army (ARGK, until 2000 the armed arm of the Kurdistan Workers' Party ), Şemdin Sakık, was the secret witness with the One of the code names "Deniz". His more general statements led to sharp comments in the Turkish media.

2013

March 18, 2013: In front of the 13th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul, the prosecutors made their plea in the central proceedings against Ergenekon . The 2271-page plea, which is summarized on 90 pages, assumes the existence of a "terrorist organization" Ergenekon. For five of the 275 defendants, acquittal was requested. The proceedings against five other defendants who could not be caught are to be separated. Against three defendants, who have since died, an appeal was made to suspend the proceedings.

In the case of 96 defendants, the public prosecutors took the charge of membership in an armed association as a given and demanded prison terms of 7.5 to 15 years. The prosecutors demanded the maximum sentence against 64 defendants, including Mustafa Balbay and Mehmet Haberal , who were elected for the Republican People's Party (CHP) but still in custody , as well as the former chief of staff İlker Başbuğ and the retired generals Hasan Iğsız, Nusret Taşdeler and Hurşit Tolon: made life imprisonment difficult. The claim was based on a violation of Article 312 of the new Turkish criminal law . It criminalizes the "violent attempt to wholly or partially prevent the government from carrying out its duties". With the plea, the prosecutors also requested that orders be issued to arrest 19 people and demand that 61 defendants be kept in detention.

2014

September 18, 2014: Another hearing in the "Poyrazköy" proceedings took place in front of the 5th Chamber for Serious Offenses at the Anadolu Court (the court complex is in the Kartal district in Istanbul) (ammunition was found in Poyrazköy). After merging with the proceedings under the names “Cage Action Plan”, “Assassination attempt on admirals” and ÇYDD-ÇEV (Association for the Support of a Contemporary Life and Foundation for Contemporary Life), this process has 86 accused, none of whom are any more is in custody. The court lifted the travel ban against 26 defendants, ordered expert opinions on confiscated CDs and DVDs and adjourned to January 21, 2015.

Judgments

2013

August 5, 2013: The court under Judge Hasan Hüseyin Özese in the Silivri prison complex sentenced 19 defendants, including former chief of staff İlker Başbuğ and journalist Tuncay Özkan , to life imprisonment; other defendants, including journalists, opposition MPs, a former police chief and a former head of the Turkish higher education authority, were sentenced to long prison terms. The judge considered it proven that the defendants had planned a coup against the Islamic conservative government of Erdoğan and carried out attacks to create chaos and to justify the coup. A former colonel was sentenced to 47 years in prison on August 5, 2013. Other former military officials received sentences of up to 20 years. 21 of the 275 accused - including high-ranking former military personnel, journalists and academics - have been acquitted. While the verdict was being announced, the airspace over Silivri was cordoned off and the police used tear gas to break up protests near the courthouse.

2014

April 3, 2014: The 13th Chamber for Serious Crimes in Istanbul presented the reasons for the verdict on August 5, 2013. The court found that Ergenekon is an armed terrorist organization that corresponds to the deep state with groups such as Gladio or the counter-guerrilla and that it had acted illegally within the Turkish armed forces . Ergenekon worked primarily against the 57th government under Bülent Ecevit and the 58th and 59th governments under Abdullah Gül and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . A connection between the secret society and the attack on members of the State Council (tr: Danıştay ) in May 2006 could not be proven.

The reasoned judgment comprises 16,600 pages, which can be viewed in three books at the Association System of the National Network of Jurisdiction (tr: Ulusal Yargı Ağı Bilişim Sistemi ; UYAP). 621 meetings were held. There were 803 charges, 614 of which went into the verdict.

2016

On April 21, 2016, the Supreme Court overturned the entire process and the 275 convictions, on the grounds that the existence of the alleged Ergenekon conspiracy, which wanted to overthrow the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had not been proven during the trial and that Law of defense was not respected.

Individual evidence

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