Ergenekon Investigation Needs to Look at Kurdish Murders
Kurdish MP Sırrı Sakık holds arrested general Ersöz responsible for the rights violations in Kurdish areas and calls for a thorough investigation.
Ersöz was to be arrested last year, but managed to escape to Russia. He was finally arrested last week, having returned to Turkey to undergo medical treatment.
Two of many disappearances
Sakık continues, “The most important question that Ersöz needs to be asked is undoubtedly about the disappearance of Serdar Tanış, Silopi district chair of the HADEP party [the DTP’s predecessor], and his assistant Ebubekir Deniz when in gendarmerie custody.”
On 25 January 2001, the two men were called to the Silopi Gendarmerie station. They were never heard of again. Relatives of the disappeared men appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, and Turkey was sentenced to paying 170,000 Euros in damages for not conducting an effective investigation.
Susurluk actors need to be investigated
If, so Sakık, the illegal networks revealed by the Susurluk scandal in 1996 had been investigated properly, then the Ergenekon organisation would not have been able to thrive. He called on an investigation of politicians Tansu Çiller, Necmettin Erbakan as well as then-president Süleyman Demirel, and then-police chief Mehmet Ağar. (BÇ/AG)
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- Brief History Of The Ergenekon Case[20 October 2008]
- "Ergenekon" Conspiracy is Rooted in "Susurluk" Says Former Minister [30 January 2008]
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