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The Unresolved Assassinations from Susurluk to Ergenekon
Several assassinations that took place in Turkey have always raised suspicions and skepticism even when their murderers were found. This “period of skepticism” begins as early as the 1970s continues through the 1990s and 2000s. [...] terrorizing the citizens in the country creating chaos and shift Turkey from a democracy to an authoritarian rule by using fear tactics. [...] What are even more mysterious are the unresolved assassinations.
Assassinations
[...] Hamit Fendoglu was killed by a bomb while walking home in 1978, Prosecutor Dogan Öz was killed with a gun in 1978 while preparing to take a counter-guerilla organization to the court, academicians Bedri Karafakioglu and Bedrettin Comert were killed and the assassins are still not known, famous journalist Abdi Ipekçi was killed with a gunshot in February 1979, Gun Sazak, one of the leading figures of the Nationalist Movement was killed with a gun on May 27, 1980, and former Prime Minister Nihat Erim and the president of the Labor Union - DISK were also killed during this period. Although in certain cases the assassins were found, they managed to escape, but often the assassination remained unresolved. [...]
The second wave of the mysterious assassinations took place in the 1990s. Famous jurist Muammer Aksoy was killed with a 7.65mm Baretta on January 31, 1990. Intelligence officer Hiram Abas was killed in a similar fashion with a 7.65mm gun (with a silencer), and journalist Çetin Emeç and writer Turan Dursun were murdered with guns. Although to what extent one can associate the weapons fopund underground with the guns used in the assassinations is unclear, it is commonly known that Glocks, Barettas, and Uzis are used for assassinations. In 1990s Bahriye Üçok, Ugur Mumcu, Onat Kutlar, and Ahmet Taner Kislali were all killed with a C4 type or plastic explosives in the 1990s. [...] If we look at the third wave of assassinations we see that writer Necip Hablemitoglu, jurist Mustafa Yüvel Özbilgin, Priest Santoro, and journalist Hrant Dink were murdered with Barettas and Glocks.
1996: Susurluk
In 1996, Turkey came very close to understanding the mysteries behind all the resolved and unresolved assassinations. This year, a hope emerged to shed a light on these assassinations when a Mercedes hit a truck which led to the discovery of several guns and documents in the town of Susurluk in Balikesir. The passengers in the car were an assassin named Abdullah Çatli, Parliament member Sedat Bucak, and chief of police Hüseyin Kocadag. [...] the incident and all the clues reached from the accident were covered up by assigning a weak and inefficient parliamentary commission.
2007: Umraniye
[...] the bombs discovered in Umraniye were found to be from the same series as the bombs from the attack on the Cumhuriyet newspaper’s office [...] the persons involved in the bombing of the newspaper headquarters were found to be in relation to the assassin (Alparslan Aslan) of the president of the State Council, Mustafa Yucel Bilgin. The investigation conducted between July 12, 2007 and October 26, 2008 resulted in 167 persons to be taken into custody of which 70 are currently on trial for promoting a rebellion against the government and planning a coup d’état. [...] As a result of these operations numerous guns, shotguns, and machine guns were captured and retired bureaucrats, military personnel, businessmen, academicians, and policemen were taken into custody. [...] the discovery of the relationship between the Susurluk’s background actors and the new Ergenekon actors.