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Erzincan investigation details implementation of Çiçek’s plot
According to the documents, the plot was put into operation in the province after a visit by Col. Dursun Çiçek and retired Gen. Ergin Saygun in April 2009. Titled the Action Plan to Fight Reactionaryism, the plot was drafted by Çiçek, a naval colonel.
The plot contains a plan to plant weapons and ammunition at the homes of members of certain religious communities. Police raids at these houses would result in the arrest of those individuals. The public would then start believing that religious communities had “terrorist intentions.”
A secret witness using the code name “Munzur” is quoted as saying in the new documents that Gen. Saygun and Col. Çiçek met in Erzincan and even traveled in the same vehicle. The two had coup meetings they called “seminars” in Erzincan to discuss the details of the plot, according to the same documents.
Another secret witness, “Efe,” states in the documents that he saw Col. Çiçek have breakfast with now-jailed Erzincan Chief Prosecutor İlhan Cihaner at the Erzincan military facilities.
Erzincan police launched a search at the Paradise Patisserie on Tuesday, where Republican People’s Party (CHP) İzmir deputy Ahmet Ersin reportedly held a meeting with Munzur to convince him to retract his testimony. Police officers searched computers and documents at the patisserie. No further information was available about the search at the time Today’s Zaman went to print.
According to a number of documents included in the indictment which were seized at the office of a suspect, Ersin Turgut, many residents of Erzincan were urged to help categorize other residents of the city.
Titled “Identity Information and Socio-Cultural Situations,” the document includes the phone numbers, addresses and family-related information of categorized individuals. The document also links most of those individuals with faith-based groups in the city.
Another document, titled “Information of Staff,” lists a group of 60 members of an extreme-right group in the city. The document also gives details about the group’s background.
A separate document categorizes many people as “informants,” “trustworthy” and “agents.” Those people were used to help classify many Erzincan residents on the basis of their ideological, political and religious views.
The first hearing of the trial will be held in early May at the Erzurum 2nd High Criminal Court. There are 14 suspects in the trial. Eleven of them are in custody. The suspects are Gen. Saldıray Berk, the commander of the 3rd Army, Cihaner, two colonels, one major, one sergeant, four noncommissioned officers, three National Intelligence Organization (MİT) employees and a civilian.
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