Ergenekon prosecutors questioned Gündeş after a secret witness testified that Gündeş sent him to Gen. Çevik Bir to discuss the matter. The secret witness said Gen. Bir had asked him if he could launch a missile. Habertürk wrote that Ergenekon prosecutors asked Gündeş about the alleged assassination plans against Erdoğan and who was behind it.
Other questions asked related to the details of the missile attack plans.
Gen. Bir, who played a major role in the Feb. 28, 1997 process, which was termed a “soft coup,” and Gündeş, both of whose names appear on several documents seized during the probe into Ergenekon, went to a courthouse in the Levent district of İstanbul on June 25 to testify to prosecutor Zekeriya Öz. One of the seized documents, titled “Announcing the Çevik Bir-Erol Özkasnak team's coup attempts serving the interests of the United States,” detailed a coup attempt in 1998 that was prevented by then-Chief of General Staff Gen. Hüseyin Hakkı Karadayı.
Gündeş's telephones have been legally wiretapped since April 24 under the Ergenekon investigation. Habertürk detailed several of Gündeş's phone conversations, in which Gündeş allegedly asked when a new government would be formed. The other person on the line, referred to as “Erman,” allegedly says in the conversation, “You asked us to topple the government, we did. You asked us to form a new Cabinet, we did. What else do you want?”
Ergenekon prosecutors asked Gündeş about his relationships with various people he spoke with on the phone, according to Habertürk.
