Will Ergenekon, the Turkish Gladio, be eliminated?
The current political tension in Turkey is not the product of the recent closure case filed against the AK Party alone. The tension actually stems from the attempt to investigate Ergenekon, the Turkish Gladio enterprise. The recent detention of three important figures by an İstanbul Prosecutor in connection with this criminal organization raised suspicions as to whether the investigation was related to a coup attempt. İlhan Selçuk, one of the individuals taken into custody last week, is the owner and writer of a leftist-Kemalist daily paper. He had been detained and convicted 37 years ago in connection with a coup attempt. The second individual is a former rector of an important Turkish university. The third was arrested following a preliminary interrogation in custody. The arrested individual is the president of a marginal political party that has remained always been controversial and which has moved from Maoist socialism to Eurasianism formulated by Alexander Dugin. A broadcast ban
