Jenkins gave speeches at a meetings organized by the ARI Foundation, a Washington-based extension of the ARI Movement, which was inspired by the ideas of former President Turgut Özal and intended to promote liberalism, individual rights, freedoms and a free market economy. Thus, we can surmise that the ARI Movement and its supporters have now concluded that free enterprise, the rule of law, rights and freedoms and democracy can be realized in this country only through the agency of the Ergenekon terrorist organization. This is the logical conclusion one can draw seeing how they organized a meeting to spread disinformation. Had it not been so, they would not have exerted any effort to promote the ranting of Jenkins, who had written a report full of baseless claims with a view to discrediting, diluting and distorting the truth about Turkey's most important legal investigation, apparently acting in line with the instructions he receives from those shadowy structures. Also, they would never dare to sully their reputation, which they built with great care. In any case, we're not interested in the ARI Movement but in Jenkins' fantasy world and illusions.
Sharing his fantasies during a meeting titled “Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation” at the Rayburn House Office Building, and “From Rhetoric to Reality: Prospects for Turkey’s Future and the AKP’s Authoritarian Tendencies” at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University, Jenkins said: “The emperor has no clothes; the investigation has no clothes. There is no organization called Ergenekon. The US should ask Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ‘What do you think you are doing behind closed doors?'”
In connection with the investigation into the Ergenekon terrorist organization, whose involvement in an attack on the Council of State and a bombing of the Cumhuriyet newspaper has been proven and which we are almost sure masterminded the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the massacre of missionaries in Malatya, Jenkins continued to repeat his famous arguments for pro-Ergenekon circles, as if no assassination or conspiracy plots had surfaced and as if hundreds of weapons and bombs to be used to create chaos in the country had not been seized. Claiming that the people who were detained under the Ergenekon investigation had no characteristics in common other than opposition to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Jenkins maintained that these people were well known to the general public and had important positions, thereby making them unlikely members of such an organization. Despite the fact that the investigation and the trial are still under way, he did not hesitate to issue a judgment as if he were a judge: "Fifteen to 20 of the defendants may be guilty. Fifty to 60 are ultranationalist hard-liners, but they have committed no crime. The rest are completely innocent." Responding to a question, Jenkins claimed that his life is now under threat due to the report he wrote.
There is no sign that Jenkins and his ilk are in danger, but there are a great many people who have lived under immense threat in this country. In other words, the emperor really has no clothes, but not in the sense Jenkins means. Although he did say, "I have lived there for 20 years, and this is the most frightening period I have ever seen," I think he, too, will concede that we are currently living at a time where unsolved, mysterious political assassinations and cases of social conflict are at their lowest level and that "the most frightening period" was the time when such murders and assassinations were at their peak.
Now, let us look at what happened in Turkey as Jenkins was talking nonsense in Washington, and let us read from yesterday's headline story of the Taraf newspaper, which Jenkins frequently criticized in his speeches. "Prosecutors pursued the Ergenekon arsenal uncovered in Poyrazköy and discovered that the junta within the Naval Forces Command prepared the Cage Action Plan in March 2009 in order to finish off the AK Party by using non-Muslims. The plan, drafted by the Special Operation Forces Command, consisting of a 41-member cell within the Naval Forces Command, was undersigned by Lt. Col. Ercan Kireçtepe, who is under arrest as part of the Ergenekon investigation. According to the five-stage plan, assassinations will be conducted against non-Muslim minorities living in Turkey and bombs will be detonated in neighborhoods where they live in order to increase internal and external pressure on the AK Party.
"According to the plan prepared by Lt. Col. Kireçtepe, these actions will be conducted by active and retired military officers of the Naval Forces Command who are under arrest as part of the Ergenekon investigation. The plan clearly shows what officer is located in which cell. Twenty-seven military officers have reportedly testified to Ergenekon prosecutors in connection with this plan during the last two weeks.”
The plan, dated March 2009, under the heading "General," reads: "A public perception that Turkey's non-Muslims are being targeted by reactionary groups in the country can be created following operations against Catholic priest Father Andrea Santoro, the Zirve Publishing House in Malatya and Hrant Dink. But the AK Party, with support from opposition media, conducted intense propaganda campaigns, saying these incidents were organized by Ergenekon." The report further emphasizes that in order to reverse the course of events, campaigns will be organized to instill fear among non-Muslims, adding: "In order to lend support by the Special Operations Forces Command to those arrested under the Ergenekon investigation and render useless counter-psychological warfare activities of the AK Party and its supporters, and to change the agenda, distract attention, boost the organization's morale and win public support, fear-instilling campaigns will be conducted against non-Muslims. Black propaganda will suggest these activities are being conducted by the AK Party and its evil supporters."
Part of the most frightening "action" part of the plan said: "Bombings will be arranged in various neighborhoods on islands near İstanbul. People who fervently advocate the rights of minorities will be assassinated. Percussion bombs will be detonated in designated places, such as near the Agos newspaper. Packages that appear to be bombs will be planted in various places, and the police will be notified of them so that they keep busy with this. Bombings will be conducted on the docks of ferries shuttling between İstanbul and the islands. Provocative attacks will be conducted against non-Muslim cemeteries. Some of the famous non-Muslim businessmen and/or celebrities will be kidnapped. Arson attacks will hit houses, workplaces and cars belonging to non-Muslims. Similar attacks will be conducted in cities with a considerable non-Muslim population. In coordination with the special plan cell leader, these acts of sabotage, kidnappings and assassinations will be ascribed to some reactionary organizations."
I now have a simple question for Gareth Jenkins: What part of this plan -- which also envisages black propaganda -- do you see yourself in with your report and your speeches?
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