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Ergenekon Coup Plot Verdict in Turkey: Another Step in Britain’s Drive to Install Muslim Brotherhood Dictatorships Region-wide
7 August 2013
(EIRNS)—The famous Ergenekon case in Turkey has been closed with the conviction and sentencing of nearly 275 defendants, in which 9 senior generals, including the former Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Ilker Basbug, received life sentences. It constitutes an attack on the institutional role of the Turkish military, and as such is part of the British-run strategy of wiping out any possible obstacles to Muslim Brotherhood and related fundamentalist dictatorship across the region. If they succeed, Lyndon LaRouche commented today, it will unleash chaos — but that is precisely the British policy. The harsh sentences and questionable legal procedures of the case have created a widespread view that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used the case to intimidate any opposition to his government and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The development comes in the midst of growing opposition throughout the country, even among Islamic circles, to his hard-line policy against the political opposition, but even more important, his government’s alignment with the Anglo-Saudi anti-Syria policy and turning the region over to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is now destabilizing Turkey itself. This Ergenekon case started over seven years ago with the exposure of a "deep state" apparatus that interfaced with drug trafficking, left-right terrorism, and the PKK, with obvious links to foreign players. It was actually several cases, but within a few years these cases were consolidated into one case in order to punish "Kamalist military coup plotters," which only served to intimidate any expression of legitimate opposition to these policies in the military by professional officers. (Kamalist refers to Kamal Attaturk, founder of the Turkish nation, 1923-24.) The opposition People’s Republican Party and the National Movement party denounced the verdicts on the grounds that the trial was held in the Court for Serious Crimes, which try terrorism cases despite the fact that these courts were abolished by Parliament last year. But the parliamentary ruling was not allowed to affect this particular court for the duration of the trial. Those convicted will be appealing their cases, right up to the European Court of Justice. This is not the last of the "coup" case. The "Sledgehammer" case, also known as the "post-modern coup" case, is still ongoing. [DEA/DNS] |