JITEM

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JİTEM ( Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele , in German about "Secret Service and Counter Terrorism of the Gendarmerie") is the name for an informal secret service of the Turkish gendarmerie , whose existence has always been denied by the Turkish state. In Turkey, JITEM is assigned to the “ deep state ” and is held responsible for a number of murders of mostly Kurdish people in southeastern Turkey. The abbreviation JİT Jandarma İstihbarat Teşkilatı , "Secret Service Organization of the Gendarmerie", is also in use. Brigadier General a. D. Veli Küçük stated. In the course of the Ergenekon trials, the existence of the JITEM was confirmed by the Turkish judiciary, even if the organization's structure and periods of activity have not yet been finally clarified.

Cem Ersever

The JITEM is closely connected with the name of the major of the gendarmerie Cem Ersever. He allegedly led the JITEM when Turkey faced a completely new threat with the "great advance" of the PKK in late summer 1984 and the military and secret service were not adequately prepared for a guerrilla war . Ersever was murdered in Ankara in 1993. His two closest confidants were also found murdered in separate locations a few days later.

Abdülkadir Aygan

Abdülkadir Aygan is one of the most famous defectors of the PKK. His confessions appeared in the book İtirafçı: Bir JİTEM'ci anlattı (“ Defector : A JITEM member reports”). His statements report executions and kidnappings and brought five other defectors from the PKK to court for involvement in a total of eight murder cases. His memoirs also contain documents (pay slips) that prove that he was in the service of JITEM in 1991 under the name Aziz Turan. Ertan Beşe, lecturer at the police college, considers this to be the most resounding evidence that the JITEM at least existed (Almanac p. 173). Abdülkadir Aygan named the names of 29 people who are said to have been victims of the JITEM.

Government reports

There are two government reports covering the existence of the JITEM:

  1. the Susurluk report by Kutlu Savaş, special rapporteur for the Prime Minister's Office, on the incident in Susurluk , which revealed links between the state and organized crime in 1996 ;
  2. the Susurluk report of the Parliament's ad hoc commission.

Both reports come to the conclusion that the JITEM existed.

Opinions

  • The former commander of the gendarmerie Teoman Koman stated: "There is no legal or illegal entity within the gendarmerie called JITEM, but there is a group outside the gendarmerie that carries out illegal activities under that name."
  • The former commander of the gendarmerie in the then areas of emergency, General Altay Tokat , said there was an organization called JITEM. This has now fulfilled its role and has been dissolved (daily newspaper Zaman of December 29, 2004).
  • The then Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz declared in a television program in 1998 that JİTEM existed, but has since been dissolved.

Crimes with alleged involvement of JITEM

Musa Anter , a well-known Kurdish intellectual, was murdered in the fall of 1992. In November 2005, members of the gendarmerie and a defector bombed a bookstore in Şemdinli . The perpetrators were found by passers-by. You were convicted in the first instance. In the appeal, the proceedings were referred to a military court . This court ordered release from prison.

Legal action

The Turkish Chief Public Prosecutor İlhan Cihaner was the first public prosecutor to investigate JİTEM in 1997. Despite serious allegations by the Chief Public Prosecutor against various civil servants, soldiers, informants and others of murder, bombing, enforced disappearance of arrested persons and the establishment of a nationwide illegal criminal organization, there has been no trial since then.

As part of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Susurluk scandal , the deputy director of the intelligence department of the Turkish police, Hanefi Avcı, testified in 1997 that illegal gangs had been formed in the context of the fight against terrorism and that there was an organization called JITEM that carried out illegal activities .

literature

  • Soner Yalçın : Binbaşı Ersever'in itirafları . Istanbul 1994
  • Çetin Ağaşe: Cem Ersever ve JİTEM Gerçeği . Istanbul 2007
  • Abdülkadir Aygan: İtirafçı: Bir JİTEM'ci anlattı . Istanbul 2004

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ This crime arrangement is generally understood as a reminiscence of Ersever's book Üçgendeki Tezgah (for example: "Machenschaft im Dreieck").
  2. ↑ See footnote 3 in the report of the Turkish Democratic Forum , accessed on January 31, 2009
  3. ↑ Turkish daily newspaper "Radikal" from February 16, 2006
  4. ↑ Message in weekly report 51/2007 of the Turkish Democratic Forum (accessed on January 31, 2009)
  5. ↑ News portal habervesaire.com: Article about JİTEM , (Turkish)
  6. ↑ News portal haber3.com: Article about JİTEM , (Turkish)
  7. ↑ Hanefi Avci: Haliç'de yaşayan Simonlar . Angora Yayınevi (publisher), 18th edition 2010, ISBN 978-975-287-075-8 , (Turkish)