The accusations are based on a document found on the computer of Yalçın Küçük, one of the suspects. The document, titled “The Epileptic Country,” talks about Erdoğan and makes some suggestions of ways to eliminate him from the political scene. The document found on Küçük’s computer shows that Ergenekon actually attempted to confine Erdoğan to his bed, in an open reference to the plot against Ecevit.
The third Ergenekon indictment suggests that the document was written by Küçük himself and that the suggestion to get rid of Erdoğan, “just like Ecevit before him,” was also his idea. There are notes in the documents urging the implementers of the plan to “make sure a gendarmerie guard stays on watch so he cannot flee the hospital like Ecevit.” The document says that a bedridden and ailing prime minister would be “to the benefit of the country.” In the lengthy document, Küçük offered a scenario where the prime minister would become sick and be sent to Başkent University Rector Mehmet Haberal’s hospital. “I believe Haberal will not let him get out of his hands this time,” Küçük wrote.
Last week, the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court ruled to examine all documents related to Ecevit’s stay at Başkent University Hospital in Ankara as part of the investigation into Ergenekon. The court is now focused on claims that the Başkent University Hospital staff was involved in plans to draft a phony medical report for Ecevit. The claims were first raised by Democratic Left Party (DSP) officials in 2002. Following the emergence of these claims, Ecevit was immediately rushed to the Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine (GATA) by his wife, Rahşan Ecevit. The former prime minister died in 2006. Haberal, the rector of Başkent University, was detained last year as part of the Ergenekon probe. He was also Ecevit’s doctor at the hospital. The court has requested medical documents from the time when Ecevit was in Haberal’s hospital.
