The indictment claims that the prosecution has reason to believe that an attack in 1993 by a fundamentalist mob in Sivas at a hotel where visiting Alevi poets and intellectuals were staying was also orchestrated by Ergenekon. The mob set the hotel on fire, killing 35 Alevis. The incident is remembered as one of the darkest moments in Turkey's recent history. The indictment also says that a hand grenade attack at the Cumhuriyet daily in 2006, in which no one was injured; and an armed attack at the Council of State a few days after the attack that resulted in the death of a senior judge were also the doing of Ergenekon.
The indictment claims that the prosecution has reason to believe that an attack in 1993 by a fundamentalist mob in Sivas at a hotel where visiting Alevi poets and intellectuals were staying was also orchestrated by Ergenekon. The mob set the hotel on fire, killing 35 Alevis. The incident is remembered as one of the darkest moments in Turkey's recent history. The indictment also says that a hand grenade attack at the Cumhuriyet daily in 2006, in which no one was injured; and an armed attack at the Council of State a few days after the attack that resulted in the death of a senior judge were also the doing of Ergenekon.
The document lists a breakdown of the assassinations and attacks planned for the future by the group, based on organizational documents acquired during the investigation.
According to this, the group was planning to assassinate members of the higher judiciary. Based on a blueprint map of the Supreme Court of Appeals acquired at the Workers' Party (İP) headquarters in Ankara, the prosecution claims the group had obtained detailed drawings of the building as well as information of its inner structure and security systems. The Ankara Police Department has confirmed that the Supreme Court of Appeals' blueprint found in the investigation accurately reflects the details of the building.
Plot to kill Armenian patriarch
The new indictment also includes details about a plot to assassinate Armenian Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan, based on documents found in the home of İbrahim Şahin. The documents found in Şahin's home include a Google Earth map of the area where the patriarchate is located, notes about the patriarchate's security system, photographs of Mesrob and pictures of the patriarchate taken at different angles. There are also text documents explaining the details of the plan to kill the patriarch.
According to writings laid out in text on a document titled the “Intimidation Plan (Mutafyan),” the group was going to use a light anti-tank weapon (LAW) for the assassination, a number of which were found hidden away at various places during the investigation. According to this, police officer Kenan Temur was going to direct the attack while those who would carry out the plan would be appointed by Fatma Cengiz, Yaşar Oğuz Şahin, Fahri Kepek and an individual identified only as “Commander Talat.”
The document further laid out the action plan, saying: “The periodic hours of the individual's entrance and exit from the [church] will be established. Two LAWs will be taken from the secret depot and placed in suitable places that face the patriarchate. Two men, who will be assigned to the assassination, will be positioned outside the patriarchate. If all is well, one of them will hold his watch in his right hand, letting it dangle down from his palm, while the other one will light a cigarette with his right hand, holding his left hand in his pocket. Any other gesture will be interpreted as danger. In the last stage, as the target enters the street both gunmen will be ready and when one starts firing at him, the other one will also start firing indiscriminately.”
Assassination plan for Minas Durmaz Güler
Another assassination the group planned was that of Minas Durmaz Güler, the head of the Sivas Armenian Community. The prosecution is relying on evidence from phone conversations between Fatma Cengiz and İbrahim Şahin to support this claim. The would-be hitmen, Ersin Gönenci and Oğuz Bulut, were arrested before they could carry out the assassination, the indictment notes.
Other targets of the group included Ali Balkız, the chairman of the Alevi-Bektaşi federation, and the federation's secretary-general, Kazım Genç, both very important figures in the Alevi community. Among documents found in Şahin's house regarding the planned assassination of the two Alevi leaders are detailed blueprints and maps of the two men's houses, their photographs and notes indicating that Balkız would be killed by a bomb planted in his car while Genç would be assassinated by an explosive package sent to his address. The perpetrators were, as in other cases, already selected. Muhammed Sakarya was to be the cell leader in this operation. A document titled the “Intimidation Plan” also explains the purpose of the assassination as provoking Alevis and fanning conflict between the Alevi community and the country's majority Sunni population.
Büyükanıt, Koru, Pamuk and DTP members on the list
In a document found at İP headquarters it was clearly written that the group had tried to assassinate former Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt in 2005 during a trip the general took to İzmir and Balıkesir. Based on information obtained from the interception of phone conversations of the suspects, the prosecution claims that the group had plans to assassinate journalist and author Fehmi Koru, Turkey's Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk, Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Türk, Diyarbakır Mayor and DTP politician Osman Baydemir and DTP deputy Sebahat Tuncel. The indictment also notes that Selim Akkurt, one of the hit men recruited for these assassinations, was arrested shortly after a conversation between him and Ergenekon suspect Fikri Karadağ was heard by the police monitoring the conversations, in order to avoid an “unwanted incident.”
NATO and shopping mall targets
The indictment also claims that the organization was planning attacks at a NATO command center in İzmir and a number of shopping malls including the Optimum and Antras shopping malls in the capital. Most of these plans were discovered through documents found in İbrahim Şahin's office.
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