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May 26, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Names of JİTEM officers posted online

25 July 2009 / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Abülkadir Aygan, a former member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who later changed sides and became an informer for JİTEM, an illegal organization formed within the gendarmerie responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings in the Kurdish-dominated Southeast in the '90s, posted online the names of gendarmerie officers whom he claimed were members of JİTEM.

Names on the list include former generals who are currently jailed as part of the trial of suspected members of Ergenekon, a clandestine gang that allegedly plotted to overthrow the government.

Aygan's earlier revelations about JİTEM had led to the excavation of “death wells” in the southeastern town of Silopi, where human fragments believed to belong to individuals who went missing during JİTEM's reign of terror have been found.

He also added in a statement that he would do whatever he could to help prosecutors conducting the Ergenekon investigation. The names on the list include: Ali Akgöz, Veli Küçük, Arif Doğan, A. Cem Ersever, Aytekin Özen, Nurettin Ata, Hüseyin Kara, Ali Yıldız, Abdulkerim Kırcı, Cahit Aydın, Cemal Temizöz, Kadir Tahir, Zahit Engin, Savaş Gevrekçi, Tunay Yanardağ, Mustafa Karaduman, Musa Sümbül, Osman Aksu, Fatih Aslan; non-comissioned officers Osman Altıntaş, Mehmet ..., Adnan Erdeve, İbrahim Gökçeyrek, Necmettin Çekiç, Ali Tellioğlu, Seyfullah Cural, Ali Savar, Ergün Çetin, Üzeyir Demirhan, Yusuf Aslan, Ufuk Kırılmaz, Şaban Bayram; senior sergeants Mustafa Uzel, Yakup Toprak, Cemal Yaşar, Recep Kara, Yüksel Uğur, Abdulkadir Öztürk, Şerif Yıldız, Murat Kaya, Mustafa Genç, Tuncay Şahiner, Mürsel Gözütok, Yavuz Gündoğdu, Oktay Yazıcı, Ahmet Karaçar and Fevzi Yılmaz. The names of the civilians who allegedly participated in JİTEM operations were posted on the website as: Kemal Emluk, Saniye Emluk, Hatice Elmas, Serpil Toprak, Abdülkadir Aygan, Abdulkadir Karataş, Hasan Adak.

 
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