Wednesday, 21 January 2009
By Merve Mervan
- Ergenekon network mainly aims to break Turkey's ties with the NATO and the West in general.
- Most of the Ergenekon members are anti-Semitic. They claim that the MOSSAD has played very dirty role in Turkish politics and aimed to divide the country into poles.
- Almost all Ergenekon members are isolationalist. They are against the European Union, United State and Israel. All are ultra-nationalist Kemalist.
- The Ergenekon generals prefer Russian and Iranian relations instead of American and Western relations.
- Ergenekon made a strong campaign against the US intervention in Iraq in 2003.
- Ergenekon members are against all kind of negotiations in Cyprus.
- Ergenekon members have very strong relations with Moscow. One of the high level members, Levent Ersoz had escaped to Moscow.
- Some of the Ergenekon members, like Dogu Perincek, has special relations with China.
- Ergenekon defends that Turkey should not join the EU. They see the EU as anti-Turkish and enemy organization.
- Ergenekon members argue that the biggest danger for Turkish interests is an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. They defends that Turkey should destroy the Barzani and Talabani forces. They further argue that Turkey should intervene militarily in Kerkuk issue.
- Almost all of them are anti-Semitic. Some of the Ergenekon intellectuals wrote anti-Semitic books and started anti-Semitic campaigns in order to spread their anit-Israeli opinion amon the people.
- Ergenekon defends that the secret Jews and secret Armenians govern the country.
- Ergenekon is against any dialogue with Armenia and Armenians.
- Ergenekon claims that the current AKP Government is backed by the US.
- According to the Ergenekon papers, the US wants to use Turkey in order to re-construct the Middle East (Greater Middle eastern Project).
- Dogu Perincek, one of the leading Ergenok names: "The name of the enemy is the United States. The US wants to destroy the unity of the nation and the country." (March 2008)
- Perincek: The one who is behind terrorism in Turkey is the US (July 2007)
- Retired General Tuncer Kilinc, the former General Secretary of the Turkish National Security Council (MGK), argued that Turkey should leave the NATO alliance and should search possibilities for close co-operation with Russia and other power centers in the region. Kilinc is considered one of the significant members of the Ergenekon network. Kilinc said "the United States use the NATO and United Nations in its global hegemony. Kilinc further claimed that Turkey (30 May 2007).
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