The White, Black and Gray Of the Ergenekon Trial By: Mustafa Akyol for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 7. Since its genesis in 2007, the Ergenekon trial has been quite hard to grasp by Turks themselves, let alone foreigners — for the case, which ended last Monday with heavy prison sentences for 254 suspects, is probably the most complicated in Turkish legal history. The indictment is longer than 5,000 pages, whereas the attached documents of evidence number more than a million. And the suspects — most of them now convicts — include a staggering scope of people ranging from retired generals to journalists, from university professors to mafia celebrities. In Turkey, there are broadly three different views about this case: The white view: Held by most religious conservatives, most of whom support the incumbent AKP (Justice and Development Party) and a few secular liberals. Accordingly, the Ergenekon case is a great leap forward for Turkish democracy. The suspects were members of a conspiratorial network, which would have launched a military coup against the AKP government had they not been brought to justice. They are also the members of the Turkish “deep state,” which has committed many crimes against leftists, Kurdish activists, liberals and non-Muslim minorities. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/originals/2013/08/ergenekon-trial-secrecy-verdicts.html#ixzz2bLyYqrak
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:42:33 +0000
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