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Yet another complaint filed against alleged coup plotters
The Sledgehammer plan is a 5,000-page document that outlines a military plan suspected to be aimed at overthrowing the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. The plan was reportedly approved at a military meeting in 2003 attended by 162 active duty members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), including 29 generals.
According to the plan, allegedly drafted by retired Gen. Çetin Doğan, the military was to systematically foment chaos in society through violent acts that would lead to a military takeover. The plan suggested bombing mosques during Friday prayers, when the greatest number of people would be gathered, and deliberately shooting down a Turkish warplane in the Aegean Sea to escalate the conflict between Turkey and Greece, aiming to undermine the AK Party in the eyes of the public.
Yesterday’s complaint followed several others filed at public prosecutors’ offices in several Turkish cities by individuals and groups.
Diyarbakır civil society organizations gathered around the main courthouse in the city in the afternoon, carrying banners that read “Sledgehammer pashas should be called to account” and “You cannot cheat people, saying ‘Allah Allah’.”
Serdar Bülent Yılmaz, the provincial head of the Freedom Association (Özgür-Der) in Diyarbakır, said he was not surprised at all by the subversive plans mentioned in the Sledgehammer plan. “The coups of May 27, March 12, Sept. 12, Feb. 28 and April 27 were all prepared by a pro-coup wing within the armed forces. Many bloody incidents, including the armed attack at the Council of State and the Maraş massacre, were intended to facilitate the staging of coups,” he stated.
Yılmaz also said the trial of a few members of the military as part of the Ergenekon case would not help eliminate the coup tradition in Turkey.
Ergenekon is a clandestine criminal organization accused of working to topple the AK Party government. Dozens of its suspected members, including members of the military, journalists, businessmen and academics, are currently in prison pending trial.
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