Investigations have revealed a package that contains underwear and a note instructing that it should be sent to Şafak Yürekli, a defendant in the Cage case, which was combined with the Poyrazköy case. Prosecutors are also examining the contents of some CDs found during the investigation. The court will be hearing the testimony of two admirals next week, and a colonel will also be called to testify.
Meanwhile, close to 90 people, including 23 cadets, have been questioned at the central military command. The investigation uncovered records kept of the body measurements of some cadets as well as documents with inappropriate information concerning the spouses and daughters of some commanders.
Previously Lt. Col. Halil Özsaraç and colonels Levent Gülmen and Mücahit Erakyol were arrested and jailed on the grounds that they contributed to the preparation of a plot called the Cage Operation Action Plan, which detailed a conspiracy to assassinate prominent non-Muslim figures in Turkey and direct the blame for the killings on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). The killings were intended to increase internal and external pressure on the party, leading to a deterioration of public support for the AK Party.
The plot was discovered on a CD seized at the office of retired Maj. Levent Bektaş during a police raid in April. The raid came after the discovery of munitions on a property owned by the İstek Foundation in Poyrazköy the same month.
In the meantime, documents retrieved from the same CD have revealed that an anti-democratic group within the Naval Forces Command had set up a prostitution ring to blackmail members of the military to work in line with the ambitions of the group.
