Criminal charges are being brought against Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the intelligence chief behind the investigations which preceded the Ergenekon and other trials.
Sun, 30 Mar 2014
Aydinlikdaily The lawyers of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan have launched a criminal complaint Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the former intelligence official in charge of the Ergenekon, Balyoz and Oda TV operations. A travel ban has also been placed on Yılmazer.
Yılmazer, the former intelligence chief for Istanbul, appeared on the Bugün TV channel last week to make a series of accusations against PM Erdoğan regarding the Ergenekon and other plots, saying that the arrests of defendants in those cases were made with Erdoğan’s full knowledge and support. He also revealed that the decisions regarding those arrests were made by members of the Gülen Gang who had infiltrated the police department.

It was confirmed this year that the trials in question were a conspiracy against certain members of the Armed Forces and intellectuals who opposed the AKP and Gülen Gang, who were at that time in alliance. The evidence against the hundreds of defendants in these trials was found to have been fabricated. After open conflict broke out between the AKP government and the Gülen Gang in December 2013, these trials again became used politically, this time by the AKP to discredit their Gülenist rivals, who they accused of being fully and solely responsible for the plot. In this context, Yılmazer’s accusations are particularly inflammatory as they claim that Erdoğan was an equal partner in the sham trials.
After Yılmazer’s revelations prompted the legal action and travel ban against him, the prosecutor’s office in Ankara made a statement disputing his claims, stressing that they did not reflect the truth and that the Prime Minister does not have the authority to have anyone arrested.
The criminal complaint against Yılmazer points out the illegality of calling citizens to make statements and then arresting those people, a practice used by the investigating officials in the Ergenekon case et al. One of the best-known examples of this practice was in the arrest of former Turkish Chief of Staff İlker Başbuğ, who was called to make a statement before being arrested and jailed in 2012. The criminal complaint also points out that Yılmazer’s admission on television that he and his associates had made the arrests constituted a confession to a crime.

Source: aydinlikdaily.com