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‘Turkish Patriarch’
detained, linked to Ergenekon
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Paşa Ümit Erenerol, the self-declared head of the so-called Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate based in İstanbul was detained yesterday in relation to his ties to the Ergenekon gang, a shadowy criminal organization, some of whose members were arrested in a recent police operation.
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Many treasury bonds and a few handguns were found in a police search made of the Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate. With orders from the, Erenerol was been detained at the patriarchate in the Karaköy district on orders from prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, who handles the Ergenekon investigation. The Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate has been said to serve as the headquarters for the Ergenekon organization. The self-declared patriarchate has neither a congregation nor a spiritual base and has turned out to be a creation of the Turkish state together with some members of the Greek Orthodox community in Turkey in the 1920s when parts of Anatolia were invaded by the Greeks. The “media and public relations officer” of the Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, Sevgi Erenerol -- the sister of Ümit Erenerol -- remains in custody after being arrested earlier for her relations to the Ergenekon organization.
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21 February 2008, Thursday
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TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES
İSTANBUL
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