{"id":327,"date":"2012-10-10T20:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/usa\/?p=327"},"modified":"2012-10-10T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:45:39","slug":"letter-to-obama-from-silivri-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/international\/letter-to-obama-from-silivri-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Obama from Silivri Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mr. President,<\/p>\n

General Douglas MacArthur who was one of the distinguished admirers of Mustafa Kemal<\/p>\n

Atat\u00fcrk, the founder of modern Turkey, the Great Leader, had an eloquent statement: \u00ab\u00a0Even<\/p>\n

the most complicated issues can be expressed in one or two pages.\u00a0\u00bb With this in mind, as a<\/p>\n

lavvyer, I will try to explain to you, shortly and in good faith, some of the covert operations of<\/p>\n

USA intelligence services involved in Turkish domestic politics.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You will know that, the Turkish Army\u2014vvhich is the apple of Turkish Nation’s eye\u2014in the<\/p>\n

early 1950s in Korea, when surrounded in Kunuri, displaying its superior combatant qualities<\/p>\n

fought bravely and prevented the annihilation of the USA 8th Army and gave a perfect<\/p>\n

example of brotherhood in arms, vvritten in gold letters in history. Then, despite their limited<\/p>\n

resources, Turkey and the Turkish Army, as a NATO member and out of respect to the<\/p>\n

notion of being an ‘ally’, did their best to fulfill the obligations of the alliance solidarity in good<\/p>\n

faith throughout the Cold War.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Turkish Nation and the Turkish Army never stipulate that the country with vvhich it displayed<\/p>\n

strong solidarity and regarded a friend vvould be involved in activities vvhich vvould do harm to<\/p>\n

it. Hovvever, if such a thing does happen, they vvill not put up vvith it, nor accept this hostility.<\/p>\n

If I am allovved to further elaborate vvithin this scope, there are concrete facts indicating that<\/p>\n

some civilian and military intelligence services affiliated to USA government have provided<\/p>\n

support to PKK terrorist organization in the form of covert operations since 1991 when the<\/p>\n

USA invaded lraq. The perception is well formed in the Turkish public opinion that the USA<\/p>\n

has provided assistance to PKK terrorist organization and this perception naturally led to an<\/p>\n

increase in opposition to American polices and in anti-Americanism in general in Turkey.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u0130n addition to this already vvell-established perception, in recent years, intensive poli\u00e7e<\/p>\n

investigations and large scale legal proceedings, carried out against the alleged criminal<\/p>\n

netvvork ‘Ergenekon’, cause grave concern. These ever-broadening ‘legal’ cases have turned<\/p>\n

into a vvitch-hunt and they offer some concrete evidence that they are linked to covert<\/p>\n

operations carried out by the officers of Pentagon, TTIC and CIA. Several journalists,<\/p>\n

politicians, authors, lavvyers who are knovvn to be real democrats\u2014as well as hundreds of<\/p>\n

flag officers and other high ranking army officers, active and retired alike\u2014 admittedly<\/p>\n

opposing aggressive policies of USA have been arrested based on fabricated, false<\/p>\n

documents originated from USA intelligence services (John Kunstadter, the officer of CIA)<\/p>\n

and they are now mostly imprisoned in Silivri prison near \u0130stanbul vvhich came to be knovvn<\/p>\n

as the Turkish \u00ab\u00a0GUANTANAMO\u00a0\u00bb. I am one of these officers, a veteran of the Turkish army<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

These operations are being carried out by poli\u00e7e officers and public prosecutors vvho are<\/p>\n

actually loyal follovvers of \u00ab\u00a0Fethullah G\u00fclen netvvork\u00a0\u00bb and supported by some ‘journalists’ and<\/p>\n

media outlets, ali affiliated to the very same organization. This global-scale project of CIA<\/p>\n

was executed in Turkey, until recently, under the protection and monitoring of the legitimate<\/p>\n

Turkish governments since mid-2000s. Some of these poli\u00e7e officers vvere trained in USA in<\/p>\n

2006 shortly before the launching of the above-mentioned operation. On the other hand,<\/p>\n

some American intelligence officers also provided support, to this (novv hardly) covert<\/p>\n

operation, in person, under the masquerade of \u00ab\u00a0judicial process\u00a0\u00bb, inside the country.<\/p>\n

Paul L. VVilliams vvho vvas a retired FBI officer explained the connection betvveen the \u00ab\u00a0Fethullah<\/p>\n

G\u00fclen netvvork\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0CIA\u00a0\u00bb as \u00ab\u00a0CIA uses the community. There are nearly 800 schools in<\/p>\n

112 countries. Annual expenses of these schools are 1 billion 200 million dollars. CIA<\/p>\n

has financing this money by a drug trade\u00a0\u00bb. Therefore certain Turkish citizens vvhose only<\/p>\n

guilt is to believe that USA has been providing support to PKK terrorist organization\u2014<\/p>\n

therefore oppose the policies of USA which do harm the world peace\u2014and who do not<\/p>\n

support the anti-democratic stance of the existing Turkish government\u2014are deprived of their<\/p>\n

freedoms. This ‘operation’ is conducted by depending on the false documents produced\u2014<\/p>\n

thanks to the active cooperation and contribution of USA intelligence services\u2014and by<\/p>\n

relying on a netvvork with a ‘religious’ mask acting as a subcontractor. Since those under<\/p>\n

arrest, for years now, include several high ranking officers in active duty, the European<\/p>\n

Parliament in its last report on Turkey, indicated that this situation not only led the Turkish<\/p>\n

democracy to retrogress irrevocably, but also began harming the \u00ab\u00a0operational capability of<\/p>\n

the Turkish Army\u00a0\u00bb in a way that would hinder carrying out its NATO tasks and<\/p>\n

responsibilities.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am an active lawyer. During my legal work for defending one of my clients involved in<\/p>\n

Ergenekon case, I reached concrete evidence vvhich indicated that a certain group vvithin the<\/p>\n

poli\u00e7e department were committing \u00ab\u00a0military espionage in favor of USA\u00a0\u00bb and then started<\/p>\n

preparing a criminal complaint. Hovvever, I was arrested on 07 June 2009 based on the<\/p>\n

‘evidence’ left in my law-office by a poli\u00e7e team vvhich broke into it at night, on 03 June 2009.<\/p>\n

Since that time I have been in Silivri prison, our local \u00ab\u00a0GUANTANAMO\u00a0\u00bb, as an ‘accused’<\/p>\n

under arrest. Nevertheless, I have now done that and hovv these operations are being<\/p>\n

conducted and who are employed in these operations, the roles and functions of American<\/p>\n

officers in this covert operation are detailed in the petition submitted to the Supreme Court of<\/p>\n

Appeals of Turkey, a copy of vvhich is also attached.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, USA is an important and strong country in terms of economy, politics and the<\/p>\n

military provvess. \u0130t is vvidely knovvn that some VVestern countries including the USA follovv<\/p>\n

the methods such as supporting the leaders of some states, sometimes by selecting them<\/p>\n

beforehand; providing support to candidates by indirectly intervening in election systems and<\/p>\n

increasing their vote shares, bringing them to povver, and benefitting from those leaders to<\/p>\n

further national interests of USA, sometimes by making use of the vveaknesses of those<\/p>\n

leaders. ‘Ergenekon’ is a typical example of such operations, recklessly planned, executed<\/p>\n

and stili on. Hovvever, with such unvvise but ‘successful’ operations the opposition to USA in<\/p>\n

Turkey and elsevvhere is simply being ever-increased. Presumably, American tax-payers do<\/p>\n

not finance \u00ab\u00a0TTIC, Pentagon and CIA\u00a0\u00bb to have these intelligence services make ali<\/p>\n

peoples of the world turn against the USA\u00a0\u00bb. These types of vveird practices may<\/p>\n

undoubtedly provide benefit in the short term for gaining those vvho rule the countries\u2014and<\/p>\n

benefit from their ‘services’. Hovvever it is also undeniable that covert operations conducted<\/p>\n

by rough methods that border the state of ‘insanity’ make peoples become more and more<\/p>\n

opposing to USA policies and that it may not suffice to coopt leaders vvho rule countries in<\/p>\n

the medium to long term. VVinning a place in the hearts of vvorld peoples, as vvell as in that of<\/p>\n

the Turkish Nation shall require more meaningful and sincere efforts rather than symbolic<\/p>\n

actions such as the participation of your ambassador in the svvimming races in the<\/p>\n

Bosphorus, organizing picnics, or supporting basketball courses.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

After a vvhile, the people vvould force its own national policy and preferences on those vvho rule the country. I mean<\/p>\n

that your current policy shall only delay the inevitable failure that vvould be suffered naturally.<\/p>\n

As long as these covert operations continue and hundreds of innocent Turkish citizens from<\/p>\n

every walk of life are framed and detained by false accusations based on fabricated<\/p>\n

indictments for vvhich supporting ‘evidence’ were produced by the help and assistance of<\/p>\n

American intelligence services, the hostility in Turkey against the USA will ever increase in<\/p>\n

the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hovvever those vvho are responsible for this result will not be the heroic and hospitable<\/p>\n

Turkish nation vvho did not hesitate to shed their blood for American soldiers and saved the<\/p>\n

day in Korea; but the USA intelligence services and Fethullah G\u00fclen netvvork vvhich is used<\/p>\n

as a cat’s paw by these services in such covert operations stili ongoing in Turkey in a<\/p>\n

manner that is not befit to the spirit of alliance and ali but in a hostile manner. The lion’s<\/p>\n

share of primary responsibility also goes to the Turkish government that, until recently, failed<\/p>\n

to act timely to stop these illegal activities constituting grave crimes according to the Turkish<\/p>\n

Lavvs, and that now cannot become effective despite ali its belated efforts.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u0130n this respect, it is clear that \u00ab\u00a0Project Ergenekon\u00a0\u00bb carried out by the follovver agents of<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Fethullah G\u00fclen netvvork\u00a0\u00bb, planted in the Turkish state institutions and throughout the<\/p>\n

Turkish media, vvhich is also, stili, used as a cat’s pavv in Turkey by American intelligence<\/p>\n

services will increase the opposition against USA in Turkey and ali \u00f6ver the vvorld. \u0130t vvill<\/p>\n

harm and cause permanent damage to the Turkish-American relations. Therefore, vve<\/p>\n

expect you, like the European Council, the European Parliament and other EU authorities<\/p>\n

and institutions, to adopt a policy that vvould side vvith democracy, human rights and<\/p>\n

freedoms in Turkey and to support the struggle of the Turkish Government against this USAbased<\/p>\n

illicit Fethullah G\u00fclen netvvork, and to stop the support of USA intelligence services to<\/p>\n

illegal activities of this organization.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Respectfully Yours,<\/p>\n

17.08.2012<\/p>\n

Lavvyer Serdar \u00d6ZT\u00dcRK<\/p>\n

Silivri Penal Institution No. 1<\/p>\n

Silivri\/\u0130stanbul<\/p>\n

Turkey
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