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Ergenekon's influence in KKTC could have been prevented
Along with Adem, many say influential powers from Turkey, including government officials, interfered in parliamentary elections held in the KKTC in 1990.
Adem said the KKTC Parliament unanimously decided that there was an intervention in the 1990 elections in the KKTC but that no investigation had been launched into the case.
Adem said if an investigation had taken place, the acts of the Ergenekon gang in the KKTC could have been prevented after that date.
Indicating that one of the biggest legs of Ergenekon is in the KKTC, he said: “Some who try to keep nationalist circles active with arguments saying they will not allow anyone to sell the KKTC are shaping politics. These circles in Turkey always have relations with those in the KKTC,” he said.
Adem said the intervention in the 1990 elections was one that served the interests of KKTC Prime Minister Derviş Eroğlu as his party, the National Unity Party (UBP), won the elections with a landslide victory.
In this respect, he said it was very normal for Eroğlu to downplay Ergenekon, noting that he was being used by the gang either knowingly or unknowingly.
“The intervention in the 1990 elections aimed to make Eroğlu win the elections. I think it is very normal for the prime minister not to take the allegations about Ergenekon seriously. Nobody would like their name being associated with a terrorist organization," he noted.
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