Everything But JİTEM Documents Revealed in Ergenekon Case

The prosecutor's office releases the annexes of its second indictment of the case, where around 80 people are accused of conspiring against the government. Yet, illegal gendarmerie intelligence unit still remains in dark.

Istanbul - BİA News Center
30 April 2009, Thursday

As the Istanbul public prosecutors office releases the annexes to its second indictment on the Ergenekon case, long waited documents gathered from the suspected founder of the illegal Gendarmerie Intelligence Unit (JİTEM), retired colonel Arif Doğan, are missing among the files.

The annexes, which amounts to 248 box files and transferred onto DVD's are distributed to defense lawyers. It documents seized from the Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) as well as personal notes of suspects, among them former generals Şener Eruygur and Hurşit Tolon; journalist Mustafa Balbay and Tuncay Özkan.

Original documents detailing coup plans, dubbed, as Sarıkız and Ayışığı are included in the annexes.

On another account, a hidden witness claims that mafia leader Ömer Lütfi Topal was murdered by JİTEM and former counter-guerilla chief Abdullah Çatlı was alive following the car accident in Susurluk and he was later killed.

More than 80 people are on trial for conspiring against the government at the Ergenekon case.(EZÖ/AGÜ)

 

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