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### Viewing cable 08ANKARA680, TURKEY: ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION INEXTRICABLY

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 ANKARA 000680

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/10/2018
    TAGS: PGOV PREL TU
    SUBJECT: TURKEY: ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION INEXTRICABLY
    TANGLED WITH AKP CLOSURE CASE

    REF: A. ISTANBUL 51
         ¶B. ANKARA 518
         ¶C. ANKARA 541
         ¶D. ANKARA 563
         ¶E. ANKARA 587

    Classified By: Political Counselor Janice G. Weiner, for Reasons 1.4 (b, d)

    ¶1. (C) SUMMARY.  Alleged links between the investigation into
    the Ergenekon deep state gang (ref A) and the chief public
    prosecutor's closure case against the ruling Justice and
    Development Party (AKP) are both difficult to prove and
    impossible to ignore.  Although evidence of a direct link
    remains largely circumstantial -- and hard to come by in the
    face of a court-imposed gag order on the Ergenekon
    investigation -- the progression of each case has clear
    implications for the other.  END SUMMARY.

    Links between Ergenekon and AKP Closure Case
    --------------------------------------------
    ¶2. (C) Detention of several prominent leftist
    ultranationalist figures March 21 -- the first Ergenekon
    raids since the Chief Public Prosecutor's March 14 indictment
    against AKP -- unleashed a media furor that unambiguously
    linked the two as a confrontation between AKP and "Kemalist
    forces."  The closure case was said to be retaliation for the
    Ergenekon crackdown, and the subsequent high-profile
    detentions were seen as tit-for-tat for the closure case.
    Prime Minister Erdogan charged March 17 that the closure case
    was revenge for uprooting deep state gangs "like Ergenekon"
    (ref B), although prominent AKPers Abdullatif Sener and
    Mehmet Saglam privately reject Erdogan's claim.

    ¶3. (C) "Cumhuriyet" daily is the site of much of the
    circumstantial evidence, rallying leftist ultranationalists
    who agree with the chief prosecutor that the time has come to
    take extra-political measures to stop AKP.  Ilhan
    Selcuk, "Cumhuriyet's" Editor-in-Chief who was detained as
    Ergenekon's alleged intellectual leader, mentioned in a
    February editorial, "If a closure case is opened and that
    triggers an economic crisis, then that will stir Turkey.
    There may be some hope."  A February article by retired
    General Dogu Silahcioglu -- who has not been implicated in
    Ergenekon but was deeply involved in the February 28 process
    that pulled the rug out from under Necmettin Erbakan's
    Islamist-oriented government in 1997 -- also articulated the
    need to "push AKP from power" in the fight against political
    Islam (ref C).  Pro-government Yeni Safak columnists point
    out that former National Security Council members and
    high-ranking officers have joined the Cumhuriyet Newspaper
    Foundation administration upon retirement, including
    Silahcioglu, Aytac Yalman, and Sener Eruygur, who also heads
    the Ataturkist Thought Association.  Yalman and Eruygur were
    named last spring as coup plotters in Admiral Ornek's leaked
    diaries -- reportedly detailing plans to oust the AKP
    government.

    ¶4. (C) Proponents of a link cite as evidence of complicity
    between the prosecutor and some Ergenekon suspects media
    reports that a copy of the AKP closure indictment, obtained
    from one of the Ergenekon detainees' computers, was dated two
    days before the indictment was filed.

    Military and Intelligence Community Complicity?
    --------------------------------------------
    ¶5. (SBU) "Radikal" daily published on April 5 the "chart and
    charter" of Ergenekon, based on a 1999 document allegedly
    seized in the houses of detainees Tuncay Guney, retired
    Captain Muzaffer Tekin, retired General Veli Kucuk, and
    retired Major Zekeriya Ozturk.  The document, which describes
    Ergenekon as operating within the armed forces, outlines a
    rigidly compartmentalized structure of a president, four
    commands, and two civilian departments.  Only the Ergenekon
    president would be aware of the existence of the Operations
    command.  Techniques outlined in the document include
    creation of terrorist groups, cooperation with legal or
    illegal organizations, assassination, disinformation,

    ANKARA 00000680  002 OF 003

    establishing NGOs and media, and illegal fundraising.
    Internal executions of double agents would be carried out by
    select military personnel who had served in special
    operations units.

    6.(C/NOFORN) Non-public information obtained during Ergenekon
    raids also suggests potential military and intelligence
    community complicity.  Embassy Legatt reports the Ankara
    branch of the Turkish National Police (TNP) has detailed 50
    officers to Istanbul to process 1000 CDs obtained during the
    raid on Labor Party (IP) leader Dogu Perincek's office
    building.  Perincek is imprisoned on charges of being "a
    high-level administrator in the Ergenekon terrorist
    organization," and several of his aides have been arrested as
    well.  In addition to IP, the building contains offices of
    Perincek affiliates, Aydinlik weekly and Ulusal Kanal
    television.  The CDs contained mainly military information,
    some of which was classified top secret, as well as top
    secret information from the National Intelligence

    SIPDIS
    Organization (MIT).

    ¶7. (C/NOFORN) According to Legatt's TNP contacts, seized
    documents reveal evidence of several plots.  The linchpin
    plot appears to be the assassination of Chief Public
    Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, author of the AKP closure
    indictment.  His assassination -- much like the 2006 attack
    on the High Administrative Court (Danistay) that resulted in
    the death of one justice -- would be attributed to Islamic
    radicals acting on behalf of AKP.  The political and economic
    crises that could result from this or other similar events
    could create an opening for second-tier military to launch a
    coup and "force the retirement" of their seniors.  Some of
    the documents seized reportedly implicate senior officers in
    the Aegean Army (NFI).  Perpetrators of a "colonels' coup,"
    contacts maintain, willingly risk endangering relations with
    the European Union and US.

    The US Angle: Guilty on All Counts
    ----------------------------------
    ¶8. (C) Commentators on both sides name the US as the
    behind-the-scenes puppeteer, stemming from a deeply and
    widely held belief that the US supported Turkey's past
    military coups. "Cumhuriyet" has regularly pushed the
    apparently contradictory but also widely-held belief that the
    US brought AKP to power to showcase Turkey as a moderate
    Islamic republic, with the Broader Middle East and North
    Africa initiative (BMENA) as the mechanism for instituting
    this new order.  Echoing the theme, the Chief Prosecutor
    alleges in the closure case indictment that BMENA and the
    "Moderate Islam Project" allow AKP to hide its sharia goals
    behind appeals to democracy, freedom of faith, and freedom of
    education (ref E).

    ¶9. (C) Others accuse the US of abandoning its AKP ally.
    Samil Tayyar, writer of a recent book on Ergenekon, argued
    in "Star" daily that AKP's failure to support an operation
    against Iran, refusal to support a Kurdish state in
    northern Iraq, and failure to furnish combat troops to
    Afghanistan caused the US to shift to "Plan B," to eliminate
    AKP.  "As it used the PKK as an instrument against Turkey,"
    the US is now using Ergenekon against AKP, Tayyar maintained.
     He claimed that if AKP cuts a deal with the US, the closure
    case might evaporate.

    ¶10. (C/NOFORN) COMMENT.  The progression of the Ergenekon and
    AKP cases is now inextricably tied together.  The
    Ergenekon investigation may implicate high-level officials,
    both military and civilian; the further it goes, the
    greater the risk existing confrontation between elected
    government and the state will intensify.  The Ergenekon
    probe, which has yet to produce an indictment in nine months,
    remains a test of both the government's (and police) resolve
    and capacity.  TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Director Mensur
    Akgun worried from the outset about the GOT's ability to find
    prosecutors and others willing to take on the "deep state"
    system (ref A).  The closure case could well cause TNP's
    commitment to pursuing Ergenekon to falter; AKP closure could
    be disastrous for TNP leadership, who are now largely

    ANKARA 00000680  003 OF 003

    pro-AKP, beholden to their political masters, and have stuck
    their necks out on Ergenekon.  END COMMENT.

    Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
    http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Turk ey

    WILSON

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