Tag: Deep State: Ergenekon
Turkish court acquits all defendants in clandestine JİTEM network trial
14th December 2019
Mehmet Ağar A high criminal court in Ankara has acquitted all defendants of murder in a trial involving the enforced disappearance or execution of 19 people in Turkey’s Southeast in the 1990s at the hands ...
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Ergenekon: The bizarre case that shaped modern Turkey
1st September 2019
Hundreds faced arrest and prosecution since 2007 over membership of a ‘terror’ organisation – but prosecutors recently ruled that the group may never have existed In July, Turkey saw the closure of one of the ...
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A little more than three years ago, a small faction within the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government. The coup would fizzle out by morning, after claiming more than 200 lives, but that wasn’t certain ...