The secret witness, who is known as Poyraz, said he often observed when he was with Peker that the mafia boss would receive telephone calls and immediately go to Gebze to visit Küçük.
Küçük has been under arrest since June as a suspect in the investigation into Ergenekon, while Peker is not being held in custody for his suspected role in the Ergenekon cases, but is currently under arrest for other offenses.
Twenty jailed suspects, including Workers’ Party (İP) leader Doğu Perinçek and Küçük, appeared at Thursday’s hearing. Poyraz continued to deliver statements to the court from where he left off in Tuesday’s hearing of the first Ergenekon trial.
Upon a demand by the presiding judge of the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court, Hasan Hüseyin Özese, for Poyraz to explain the relations between Küçük and Peker, Poyraz said Küçük exerted effort to promote Peker in the underground world. “I was visiting coffee houses and parking lots on the orders of Veli Küçük. I had a copy of the Posta newspaper where Sedat Peker’s name appears. I would leave the copies anywhere I went. In that way, even 5 or 7-year-old kids would learn his name,” he said. Poyraz further said Peker had relations with media personalities as well as bureaucrats.
