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General Staff launches investigation into controversial documents
“We saw this morning that a [Turkish] daily published a report and comments on documents allegedly prepared by a department of the General Staff.
The General Staff has immediately ordered military prosecutors to investigate the issue,” Brig. Gen. Metin Gürak said at a press briefing in Ankara yesterday.
Asked whether the investigation would question whether the documents really exist or how they could have been exposed, Gürak said, “The General Staff has ordered an investigation into all aspects of the issue.”
The question remains as to what the outcome of the investigation will be; in similar incidents in the past the General Staff either denied responsibility or accused the publishers of the documents.
A newsweekly that published excerpts of a diary allegedly belonging to an admiral was forced to shut down after it angered the General Staff. Nokta newsweekly claimed in 2007 that now-retired Adm. Özden Örnek and four force commanders in 2004 had made plans to stage two military coups. A military investigation into the claims resulted in the acquittal of the admiral and commanders but the shutting down of the newsweekly.
Then followed a high degree of tension between the General Staff and the Taraf daily, which published classified documents regarding serious security flaws existing during a terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack on Oct. 3 of last year.
A lawsuit was filed against the daily's editor for legal affairs for publishing "confidential and prohibited documents." Adnan Demir may be sentenced to up to five years in jail if convicted.
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