Ergenekon
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An important exposure of the deep state that could need expansion |
Turkey/Deep state, Deep state faction?, Gladio
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| Headquarters | Turkey |
| A Turkish deep state group with ties to members of the country's military and security forces. Exposed in 1996 car crash. | |
Ergenekon is/was a Turkish deep state group with ties to members of the country's military and security forces. Its modus operandi had been compared to Operation Gladio's Turkish branch, the Counter-Guerrilla. A car crash in 1996 exposed its existence.
Exposure
- Full article: Ergenekon/Investigations
- Full article: Ergenekon/Investigations
An organization named "Ergenekon" has been talked about since the Susurluk car crash.
By April 2011, over 500 people had been taken into custody and nearly 300 formally charged with membership of what prosecutors described as "the Ergenekon terrorist organization", which they claimed had been responsible for virtually every act of political violence — and controlled every militant group—in Turkey over the last 30 years. Many or most of them were acquitted.
Testimony
According to an anonymous witness in the 2007 Ergenekon investigation, all the car's occupants initially survived the Susurluk car crash, which was precipitated by remotely disabling the brakes of the Mercedes. A three-person team came and snapped the necks of Abdullah Çatlı and Gonca Us. Sedat Bucak was rescued by his guards, who also took his bag from the boot (trunk) and called Grey Wolf Haluk Kırcı.[1]
Cover-up
As of July 2019, the name of the corresponding Wikipedia page is "Ergenekon (allegation)".