Contemporary Jurists Association (ÇHD) said public should not expect much from the Ergenekon investigation: “It is futile to try to get out of the responsibility by trying to put all the crimes, provocations, massacres and the thousands of operations on “Ergenekon.”

ÇHD Istanbul branch reminded that although the authorities had said in the Susurluk process that they would go all the way, at the end, Korkut Eken, one of the accused in the Susurluk case, became the “legendary colonel”. Similarly, added ÇHD, the arrested perpetrators in the Şemdinli case were released at the end. According to ÇHD, as long as the political, economic and social system continues, the connections uncovered in the Ergenekon investigation will repeat themselves.

“AKP is faking, when it is trying to show itself democratic and against coups”

“They are liars when they sign an agreement at Dolmabahçe in Istanbul with those who are presented as prime suspects in  the indictments and are still at the head of the military bureaucracy; when they cannot even conceive of bringing the makers of the coups to justice in the constitution draft they prepared; when they refrain from removing the immunity of the makers of the coups, although they have the majority; and when they say they put the military bureaucracy under their control without touching a single soldier still in active duty.”

“They remember the rights of the accused just now”

ÇHD points out to how the Ergenekon investigation, like the previous examples in the past, is used to boost the confidence of people in their government by making these kinds of investigations coincide with the time when people’s confidence in their government is the lowest.

“Those who have committed countless crimes against our people under the rubric of fighting against terrorism, burned and destroyed the poor Kurdish villages and organized countless attacks against revolutionaries and socialists uphold the law today. Those who kept the revolutionaries in custody 120 days or detention for years remember the rights of the accused just after four days in custody.” (CU/EÖ/TB)