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Military prosecutor detained for issuing false medical reports
Fourteen other people, whose names were not made public, were also detained together with the colonel. After his detention, Üçok was taken to the Beşiktaş Courtroom in İstanbul to be interrogated by prosecutors conducting the case into Ergenekon, a clandestine criminal organization accused of plotting to overthrow the government.
The colonel was one of the military prosecutors conducting an investigation into secret meeting places of officers and War Academy cadets known as command centers, or Karargah houses. The existence of such places was first revealed in the second Ergenekon indictment, which claimed that military cadets were teaching the ideology of Ergenekon to other cadets at Karargah houses.
According to the indictment, there is a group within the TSK that trains pro-coup officers and acts independently from other officers or generals in their plans. A document previously seized in the office of retired Gen. Şener Eruygur, who is standing trial as a suspected member of Ergenekon, clearly pointed to the existence of the group. The document, titled “A Failed Coup and Its Reflections Today,” suggested that there was a sub-group within the TSK that carried on with the objectives of Ergenekon even if the pro-coup group within the military was dispersed. “The group still continues its efforts to expand its cadre,” read the document.
Üçok is also facing an investigation over allegations that he violated the Code on Criminal Procedure (CMK) by using “hypnosis and drugs” during the interrogation of noncommissioned officers in Kayseri.
A Turkish daily reported in June that a retired lieutenant colonel accused of using hypnosis during the interrogation of noncommissioned officers claimed that Üçok wanted him to hypnotize and drug the soldiers.
Noncommissioned officers Ali Balta, Orhan Güleç and İsmail Dağ were detained in early March upon an order from Kayseri Garrison Commander Maj. Gen. Rıdvan Ulugüler and were interrogated by Lt. Col. Gürol Doğan for 10 days following their detention. The detentions became public when the soldiers' families, after failing to receive any correspondence from the soldiers, turned to the Kayseri Court of First Instance to locate the soldiers. The court contacted the Kayseri Military Prosecutor's Office, and military prosecutor Üçok announced that the soldiers had been detained for allegedly leaking highly confidential documents. The soldiers' lawyers said the soldiers had been subjected to torture and that the interrogator, Doğan, drugged them and used hypnosis and psychological pressure to extract statements from them.
Doğan, who testified to prosecutors as part of the investigation launched into the incident by the Kayseri Public Prosecutor's Office, said Üçok wanted him to extract statements from the three soldiers using hypnosis. “Üçok asked me whether I could read people's minds and invited me to Kayseri. I had received training on the use of hypnosis when I was at the military academy. I did not know that what I had done was an offense,” he claimed.
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