REAL's Forged Quotes And Smear Campaign
WolfWolf
"Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey causes incidents to get what they want"
Never this author has used such words, and REAL gives as always no
substantiation, no evidence.
REAL uses his forgery and fabrication for his smear campaign WITH THE ONLY
AIM to support terrorists and drug dealers.
REAL bases his pro-terrorist PKK propaganda on the testimony of the
so-called 'businessman' Huseyin Baybasin.
Now let us see in which kind of 'business' Baybasin is involved.
Heroin Emperor Baybasin
Baybasins brought low: Huseyin Baybasin, the international drug smuggler who
is known as the 'heroin emperor,' and his gang have been brought down
through an international operation. An investigation has shown that,
considering the property he owned, Baybasin truly was an emperor
Joint operation: Under the direction of Turkish police officials, the police
forces of Holland, Germany, Britain, Italy and Belgium carried out
simultaneous raids on the gang
Tip of the iceberg: While the Baybasins' activities and holdings are being
put under a magnifying glass in Germany, England, Belgium, Italy and Turkey,
it is estimated that the property which has been discovered so far is only
the tip of the iceberg
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HAKAN ASLANELI
Since the 1970s, the name of Huseyin Baybasin has always been mentioned as
among the leading international drug smugglers. Baybasin, the son of a
family from the Lice district in Turkey's Southeast, first became involved
in a minor way in the hashish and marijuana trade with his brothers and
relatives and then succeeded in breaking into the international drug trade.
The Baybasin gang processed the raw materials which they brought from India,
Pakistan and Iran in laboratories which they set up in the villages near
Lice, and sold the drugs to the Turkish and European markets.
The gang succeeded for many years in evading arrest. The fate of Baybasin,
who is counted among the wealthiest men not only in Turkey but in the world,
changed when the Mesut Yilmaz government came to power. Because Yilmaz was
not happy about Turkey's reputation as a major drug trafficking country, his
first instructions to Interior Minister Murat Basesgioglu were to arrest the
big drug dealers, and especially Baybasin.
It happened just as he wanted. After nearly five months of joint efforts by
the Turkish police and their European counterparts, the Baybasin gang and
all its members were caught in operations carried out simultaneously in
several countries. While Huseyin Baybasin, who owned the Kismetim 1 ship
which sank in 1992 in the Mediterranean with 3,100 kilos of base morphine on
board, was arrested in Holland, his partners and relatives Giyasettin,
Nizamettin, Abdullah and Mehmet Baybasin were also arrested.
Dawn operation
Under the direction of Turkish police officials, the police forces of
Holland, Germany, Britain, Italy and Belgium carried out simultaneous raids.
The Baybasins were still in bed when the operation began at 7 a.m. Turkish
time on March 27, and were surprised by the police. The leader of the gang,
Huseyin Baybasin, along with Giyasettin Baybasin and their men were arrested
in their beds at 6:05 a.m. in Holland. Nizamettin Baybasin was arrested at
6:08 a.m. in Germany, Abdullah and Mehmet Sirin Baybasin and their men at
5:07 a.m. in England and other members of the Baybasins at 7:00 a.m. in
Turkey.
Interior Minister Basesgioglu didn't get any sleep that night, and after the
dawn operation was completed he announced the end of the Baybasin's
activities. The gang members, who poisoned Turkey and the world for nearly
30 years and acquired a fortune of billions of dollars, are expected to be
tried by the courts in the countries in which they were arrested.
Basesgioglu, who was very sensitive about the fact that the operation
against the gang lasted for months, said that it had taken a long time
because they had wanted to understand just how much property the gang had
and with whom they were dealing. When all the businesses, houses, real
estate and funds which the Baybasins controlled became known, security
experts from Turkey and England met and began their investigations.
The Baybasins are suspected of having given financial assistance to the
outlawed terror organization, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its
broadcasting organ, MED TV, and the possibility of a connection between them
and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is being investigated. It has been suggested
that the Baybasins invested heavily in the southeastern Anatolia region as
well as the Aegean and Mediterranean regions through their tourism business.
It has further been claimed that they laundered the money they gained
through the drug trade by opening hundreds of money exchanges, auto shops
and car parks in various regions around Turkey.
Real estate wealth
A committee has started making an inventory of the Baybasin's property which
was uncovered in the dawn raid. A six-person special team sent by Turkish
police headquarters began working with Holland's IRT team. During the secret
operation, much of the property which the Baybasins held in Holland,
England, Romania, Germany and Belgium was revealed.
According to information which has reached Turkey, in Holland alone the
Baybasins owned three large plots of land, two furniture stores, one villa
and five luxury automobiles. These holdings are being examined by a Dutch
court.
In Belgium, a villa which was bought by one of Baybasins' men for DM 600,000
was seized by the police. In England, a hotel, a house and three separate
companies were purchased by the Baybasins in order to launder money. The
German Justice Ministry and police officials revealed that in Germany the
gang owned an automobile worth DM 50,000, a real estate company worth DM
400,000 and DM 30,000 in cash. In Romania, the gang had $1.5 million in
cash, land worth $70,000 and a number of luxury automobiles.
Experts from the Finance Ministry helped investigators in Turkey
particularly in Istanbul and Izmir. Three experts investigating the
Baybasins' bank accounts and real estate holdings discovered a house worth
DM 800,000 a business and an automobile belonging to the gang. In Istanbul,
it was revealed that the gang owned 48 houses and places of business.
The tip of the iceberg
While the Baybasins' activities and holdings are being put under a
magnifying glass in Germany, England, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, it is
estimated that the property which has been discovered so far is only the tip
of the iceberg. The Baybasins have been engaged in international drug
smuggling for nearly 30 years and their fortune is estimated to run into the
billions of dollars. They've been arrested many times for drug smuggling,
taken before the courts and set free within a short period of time. In
statements which they have given to some press organs, they have said that
they bought the judges. Now, while one group of experts examines the
Baybasins' real estate holdings and associates, another team will
investigate the Baybasins' "partners" in the court system.
REAL
WolfWolf wrote:
> REAL said:
> "Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey causes incidents to get what they want"
>
> Never this author has used such words, and REAL gives as always no
> substantiation, no evidence.
>
> REAL uses his forgery and fabrication for his smear campaign WITH THE ONLY
> AIM to support terrorists and drug dealers.
>
> REAL bases his pro-terrorist PKK propaganda on the testimony of the
> so-called 'businessman' Huseyin Baybasin.
>
> Now let us see in which kind of 'business' Baybasin is involved.
You have been asked for SOURCES for your drug claims yet NOTHING from you.
Read Mehmet Ali Birand article troll.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/04_18_02/birand.htm
We found ourselves in a comic situation at EU meeting
Ismail Cem got what he wanted. He put on the EU agenda the need to give Turkey a
date. However, just as he was leaving the room, the news of CNN Turk, NTV and TV
8's closure was received. And Turkish officials broke into a cold sweat
LUXEMBOURG
After all these years I have come across the same old scenario. Maybe a
coincidence -- however hard it may be to describe it as an accident -- or maybe
a planned, programmed script...Whatever it is, the scenario goes as follows:
Whenever Turkey attends a major meeting abroad, an incident occurs to ruin the
meeting and block a development which would give Turkey an advantage.
It is as if an invisible hand creates an incident that would prevent Turkey's
democratization, Turkey taking its place among the modern countries, an incident
that would cast a shadow on such a development.
I have growing suspicions to this effect though I do have the conviction that in
our country, planned and programmed actions get rarely taken except in the case
of murders of the Susurluk type.
I am referring to an incident which occurred during the Turkey-European Union
Association Council meeting in Luxembourg.
That was one of the most important meetings ever held between Turkey and the EU.
And it had gone well beyond all expectations.
During the meeting, Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, bombarded the EU officials with
questions. He said that Turkey was doing all it could to comply with the
Copenhagen criteria, especially in the freedom of expression area.
And he had demanded that at the Copenhagen summit scheduled to take place in
December, the should EU give Turkey a specific date for the start of the
EU-Turkey access talks.
The meeting constitutes the highest-level decision-making mechanism in Turkey-EU
relations. Hence the significance of Turkey officially demanding that a date be
determined.
Here is a summary of the meeting I have prepared, using a certain formula I have
developed:
"The EU has applauded Turkey's efforts to adapt to the EU, using the Copenhagen
criteria. It has said that the glass is half full. It drew attention to the need
to fill the other half as well.
And it issued a warning along the following line: Amending the laws would not
suffice. These have to be implemented. However, the legal changes made have not
been implemented yet."
Despite the warning, at a press conference immediately after the meeting,
Spanish foreign minister, speaking in his capacity as the council chairman,
stressed for the first time the "date-demanding" issue. Until now, the EU
officials had tried to ignore Turkey's insistence on this issue.
Pignet said: "Turkey has demanded a date. We have taken note of that. Now,
striking a balance between the EU rules and the Copenhagen criteria, we will
take a decision."
This decision is very important.
For example, though Verheugen had taken an "ending this quarrel for good" kind
of attitude in the vein of, "First comply with the Copenhagen criteria. Then we
would give you a date immediately," the Spanish minister adopted a political
approach to the issue, taking a step forward.
The Turkish delegation was very happy with the situation until a news report
gave everybody a shock.
The CNN Turk, NTV and TV 8 channels had been given a temporary -- 24 hours --
closure penalty.
Just when the press conference was drawing to an end, I heard the correspondent
of an international news agency tell Verheugen:
"The CNN has just been closed. Last week, a driver was given a prison sentence
in Diyarbakir for listening to a Kurdish cassette. And you are talking about
freedom of expression in Turkey. Is not that a contradiction?"
Verheugen faltered, tried to say something and he left the room before it could
be clarified what he had said exactly.
In Luxembourg, Turkey found itself in a comic situation indeed. To put it more
correctly, Turkey found itself in an embarrassing situation because of the
Supreme Radio-TV Board (RTUK) Bill.
Turkey showed that in its present state it would not be able to pass even a
regular human rights and basic freedoms test, let alone obtaining a specific
date for the start of the accession talks. It became obvious that first their
mentality must change.
Once again, Cyprus was on the agenda
Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz had said last Monday during his talks in
Brussels. The situation was further clarified in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
If, in the Turkey-EU relations, the Copenhagen criteria constitute a key, Cyprus
constitutes the other key.
And Rauf Denktas is being seen as the party that drags its feet on the Cyprus
issue, putting forth one condition after another. Denktas is still being
described as the person that "prevents a solution."
Since we do not know what is happening behind closed doors and who says what, we
cannot make an assessment.
However, this is the general scenery.
We should well be aware of the fact that all the balances will be disrupted
unless the Cyprus problem gets solved by the end of the year.
Unfortunately, there are so many people dealing with the Cyprus issue in Ankara,
but not one would set the direction of the developments by taking the helm into
his own hands. And the ship is slowly drifting towards a giant iceberg...
WolfWolf
"REAL" <traprea...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3CC01EDA...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com...
>
>
> WolfWolf wrote:
>
> > REAL said:
> > "Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey causes incidents to get what they want"
> >
> > Never this author has used such words, and REAL gives as always no
> > substantiation, no evidence.
> >
>
Huh - no sources? No URL? No substantiation??
And what is that, idiot???
On 26/10/93 INTERPOL released an alert note about the large-scale heroin
smuggling by Huseyin Baybasin ("The Heroin Empereor"). He was arrested and
condemned in the Netherlands.
From NRC News 27/01/2001:
Eis levenslang tegen Baybasin
Tegen de zelfverklaarde Turks-Koerdische heroïnehandelaar Hüseyin Baybasin
is gisteren in de zwaarbeveiligde Rotterdamse rechtbank een levenslange
gevangenisstraf geëist.
[Lifetime imprisonment ruled by Rotterdam court against the Turkish-Kurdish
heroin dealer H. Baybasin].
http://www.nrc-handelsblad.nl/W2/Nieuws/2001/01/27/Vp/kort.html
>
> Read Mehmet Ali Birand article troll.
>
> http://www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/04_18_02/birand.htm
>
Well, well - once again unREAL is admitting that he is a LIAR.
He gives no evidence, no substantiation for the quote:
"Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey causes incidents to get what they want"
For REAL - the Rotten Eroded Abhorrent Liar - advocating 'human rights'
means to close the eyes and supporting the killing of innocent apostates.
10/11/2001
PKK death feud reaches Great Britain
ANKARA (TN)
THE Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is continuing to execute its opposition
members amid intensifying disagreements between the administration and
critics, which broke out after the apprehension of PKK leader Abdullah
Ocalan on Feb. 16, 1999, and which has gradually intensified ever since.
Mustafa Yaygir, a PKK member carrying out activities in London, has been
executed for raising objections to the anti-democratic practices within the
organization and criticizing PKK Executive Board decisions.
Yaygir, who had settled in London in April 2001 after serving in the
organization's mountain squad for years, had expressed concern over the
anti-democratic practices of the organization and voiced complaints about
executive board decisions in local meetings. He was said to have had
occasional arguments and rows with other members of the party, trying to
defend his views.
Sources close to the PKK said that Yaygir's body had been found hanging from
the ceiling of his house in London, and added that it was very likely that
he had been murdered. They added that the murder was disguised as a suicide
by the orchestrators.
Authorities, calling attention to the intensifying violence within the PKK,
reiterate that Rodi Demirkapi, a PKK member also known as Doctor Rodi, was
forced out of his house in Cologne on May 7, 2001 at around 10:00 p.m., and
that his body had been found hanging from a tree in a park opposite his
house.
Again, in May 2001, Mahmut Arda and Sema Yildiz were executed in Tunceli,
and another PKK member, code-named Agit, who was the only witness to the
execution, was killed in September 2001 upon the instructions ' of the
executive board.
Meanwhile, the remains of opponent PKK members Aydm Sahin, Sevim Adibeli,
Sefdat Bayraktar, and Levent Buker, allegedly killed in Greece, are still
missing.
WolfWolf
The European
REAL
> "REAL" <traprea...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3CC01EDA...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com...
> >
> >
> > WolfWolf wrote:
> >
> > > REAL said:
> > > "Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey causes incidents to get what they want"
> > >
> > > Never this author has used such words, and REAL gives as always no
> > > substantiation, no evidence.
> > >
> >
> > You have been asked for SOURCES for your drug claims yet NOTHING from you.
>
> Huh - no sources? No URL? No substantiation??
> And what is that, idiot???
>
> On 26/10/93 INTERPOL released an alert note about the large-scale heroin
> smuggling by Huseyin Baybasin ("The Heroin Empereor"). He was arrested and
> condemned in the Netherlands.
> From NRC News 27/01/2001:
> Eis levenslang tegen Baybasin
> Tegen de zelfverklaarde Turks-Koerdische heroïnehandelaar Hüseyin Baybasin
> is gisteren in de zwaarbeveiligde Rotterdamse rechtbank een levenslange
> gevangenisstraf geëist.
> [Lifetime imprisonment ruled by Rotterdam court against the Turkish-Kurdish
> heroin dealer H. Baybasin].
> http://www.nrc-handelsblad.nl/W2/Nieuws/2001/01/27/Vp/kort.html
ALREADY ANSWERED
Here it is yet again:
Subject:
Re: No US concession to the PKK
Date:
Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:37:32 +1000
WolfWolf wrote:
> "REAL" <traprea...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3CA97701...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com...
> > but where is your proof?
>
> REAL was told repeatedly that his substantiation is deep inside his
> derri?re.
Again.. WHERE IS YOUR PROOF?
You have made a series of "WolfWolf" claims but NO PROOF TO BACK ANYTHING YOU
SAY
You expect us to take your pathetic word for it?
Especially when asked for proof all you can say is that my denials are proof.
and yes I can prove you said that via this google link.
You are fooling no-one troll.
> Does the so called "REAL" who thinks he can disguise his face of whitewash
> merchant also consider the victims of his terrorist friends?
>
> He came here asking for support for 'businessman' Huseyin Baybasin.
I have already answered your lies here. Here they are again pathetic troll.
Subject:
Re: No US concession to the PKK
WolfWolf wrote:
> "REAL" <traprea...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3CA5CA25...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com...
> > What of Turkish Terror?
>
> What of REAL terror?
Your "answer" just shows what you really are. Hardly "european" as you say at
every post but one of those apologists that never looks at Turkeys oprressions
against it's minorities and Turks like Akin Birdal that speak up for them.
>
>
> >
> > Tell us where the PKK was when Turkey banned the Kurdihs language and
> called
> > Kurds "Mountain Turks".
>
> WHERE WAS REAL WHEN PKK KILLED MERCILESS CHILDREN, TEACHERS, WOMEN AND
> VISITORS?
Again the same idiocies from you. Again blaming the PKK for everything yet no
mention answer from you. This is because you know that Turkish state terrorism
began befor ethe PKK even existed. It began in the 1920's when predatory Turkish
administratros sought to Turkify all of Turkey minorities and to destroy them.
The PKK formed in the 1970's. The PKK was a response to Turkish aggression. That
is why you NEVER wish to discuss what happened BEFORE the PKK.
You are just another Turkish apologist wnating us to be ignorat of Turkeys past
and present actions.
> WAS HE ALSO IN THE MOUNTAINS?
> THE REAL FOOL ON THE HILL???
>
> Was he there with his friend - the so-called 'businessmann'????
Friend? You are making claims that simply are not true. I posted an article on
him from Kurdmedia.com. This makes him my "friend"???? Just because you attack
every post that shows the facts because it is not palatable to your Grey Wolf
ideology. The same Grey Wolves that tried to assasinate the pope, the same Grey
Wolves that killed leftists, Kurds, Cypriots and Turks that they disagreed with.
You can't do anything on usenet to me, only attempt to confuse and distort the
readers. Where is your substaantiation for ANY of your claims??? It is NO-WHERE.
I have asked your for substantiation many times and all youcan say is that my
denials are proof. NO, denials are not proof.
and yes I can prove that you say such absurd things:
> Again - no words about the countless victims of the drugs marketed by
> Huseyin Baybasin, the "Heroin Empereor" - the trader of death and misery!!!
> No words about the huge wealth accumulated by this 'businessman'. Ah - tax
> free, of course!!
> No words about the blood on the hands of this 'businessman'.
> No words about his cynism - and inhuman cruelty.
All of this yet no substantiation for any of it! WolfWolf troll expects us to
take his word for it.
> Instead of this - only weaseling out and whitewashing, whining about the
> problems of this scoundrel with his toothpaste.
> Did REAL - in his unlimited hypocricy - ever consider the situation of the
> drug addicts, victims of his 'businessmann'???
> Of course not - he would have seen that some cannot even afford toothpaste -
> they are using sand instead!!
> And what is unREAL telling us? That his 'businessman' didn't like his cell -
> where he has more comfort than the earthquake victims.
>
All of this yet no substantiation for any of it! WolfWolf troll expects us to
take his word for it.
>
> Now who is this 'gentleman' Huseyin Baybasin?
>
> By request of British, German, Dutch and Turkish authorities INTERPOL issued
> an arrest warrant against him.
> On 26/10/93 INTERPOL released an alert note about the large-scale heroin
> smuggling by Huseyin Baybasin ("The Heroin Empereor"). He was arrested and
> condemned in the Netherlands.
> From NRC News 27/01/2001:
> Eis levenslang tegen Baybasin
> Tegen de zelfverklaarde Turks-Koerdische hero?nehandelaar H?seyin Baybasin
> is gisteren in de zwaarbeveiligde Rotterdamse rechtbank een levenslange
> gevangenisstraf ge?ist.
> [Lifetime imprisonment ruled by Rotterdam court against the Turkish-Kurdish
> heroin dealer H. Baybasin].
> http://www.nrc-handelsblad.nl/W2/Nieuws/2001/01/27/Vp/kort.html
>
> Now it's time for unREAL the Liar to reveal his REAL intentions. Who can
> ever deserve any credibility with this and other targets in his dirty mind?
All of this yet no substantiation for any of it! WolfWolf troll expects us to
take his word for it.
It is up to people ot make up their own minds about Huseyin Baybasin, not you to
make it up for them. Here is information on him.
Kurdish businessman Huseyin Baybasin walks out of Dutch courtroom
http://www.kurdmedia.com/reports.asp?id=288
KurdishMedia.com 04 February 2001
Huseyin Baybasin (45) held for nearly three years in a Dutch high-security
prison on the basis of allegations made against him by the Turkish government
walked out of a Dutch courtroom Friday, 2 February, declaring the case against
him a farce and the court prejudiced from the outset.
Huseyin Baybasin offered evidence in his defence during the first days of the
trial which the judge refused to have heard in court regarding fabricated
telephone tap conversations. Baybasin also insisted on his innocence concerning
all the charges made against him by the Turkish state as he has done from the
outset. He also accused the prosecutor of being in league with the Turkish state
and of attempting to prejudicially influence the trial and the trial judge.
Flagrant provocation throughout hearing
Posing as reporters individuals thought to be Dutch intelligence operatives were
flushed out by Kurdish observers at the trial when these persons attempted to
brief bona fide journalists by providing them with false information about the
facts of the case intended to pervert reporting of the case in the media. After
having been exposed they were not seen in court again.
On Thursday - the day before Huseyin Baybasin finally walked out in affront -
all the Kurdish observers seated in the gallery were arrested and accused of
having planned to bust Baybasin out. They were released two days later.
In response to this accusation the observers stated that this was idea was
utterly nonsensical as no one could possibly have entered the court with any
kind of arms, the security precautions having been so stringent.
Even their belts and watches were removed beforehand.
Huseyin Baybasin himself arrived at court attened by a fleet of Security
personnel. The team which had behaved courteously towards him on the first day
were replaced on the second day by an entirely different team who, according to
eye witnesses and Baybasin himself sought to provoke him by verbal abuse as also
by pushing and shoving him as he walked ahead of them. Baybasin is seeking to
bring a complaint.
On Friday, the fifth and final day of the aborted hearing, Huseyin Baybasin and
his lawyer withdrew in dismay saying the hearing was not proceeding fairly and
lawfully. The case was adjourned.
Damaging allegations of state corruption in Turkey Huseyin Baybasin has brought
damaging accusations against the Turkish state contesting that his erstwhile
involvement in the drugs traffick (for which he had served a sentence) and with
which he broke thereafter - was at the behest of the inmost circle of the
Turkish government of the day. Many of his early revelations were verified in
the Susurluk scandal once it broke and the enquiry which followed although much
still remains classified knowledge today, prominent participants remaining in
power throughout the government and business sector.
Details of Huseyin Baybasin’s past, earlier published allegations as well as the
facts behind his last three years in detention in Holland have been made public
in a book written from Baybasin’s notes by the late Mahmut Baksi, under the
title Teyre baz - Kurdish Businessman Huseyin Baybasin, published in Istanbul
soon after the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan. The book has since been banned, its
publishers charged and Baybasin himself sentenced in absentia by a Turkish court
to 12 years on account of it.
Baybasin refuses to lie down and be quiet. Further startling revelations can be
anticipated.
http://www.kurdmedia.com/reports.asp?id=764
Do the Dutch authorities want to murder Baybasin, imprisoned Kurdish
Businessman?
KurdishMedia.com 09 February 2002
Mr Huseyin Baybasin (45) has been held for over four years in a Dutch
high-security prison on the basis of allegations made against him only by the
Turkish regime. He has always rejected these allegations and insisted that he is
innocent.
Mr Baybasin was arrested in 27 March 1998 in the Netherlands.
This was not just against Mr Baybasin. It was a rapid attack against all
influential Kurdish families and figures by Turkish state. Most members of
Baybasin family were rounded it up all over Europe, their safe-haven, on the
request of the Turkish state.
Mr Huseyin Baybasin’s brother, Abdullah Baybasin, was also arrested in London,
on March 1998, on the request of the Turkish state, but the British authorities
could not establish Turkish claim; after eight months of detention, freed Mr
Abdullah Baybasin. Abdullah is already a victim of the Turkish regime. He was
shot and, as a result, paralysed. Despite his disability, the Turkish regime has
attempted to eliminate him again and again. The Dutch authorities however solely
relied on Turkish regime’s allegation to sentence Mr Huseyin Baybasin, and
rejected all independent evidences.
Mr Baybasin was hospitalised on Monday morning (4 February 2002) by the Dutch
authorities to investigate food-poising allegation. Friends and family of Mr
Baybasin have accused the Dutch authorities of poisoning Mr Baybasin in prison.
Food poisoning affairs
The food poisoning had come to light when one of Mr Baybasin’s relatives visited
him in prison in January 2001, only to be shocked. Mr Baybasin, who is normally
very cheerful and lively, was found confused, not functioning properly and in an
extremely poor health state.
Family members tried through legal systems to hospitalise Mr Baybasin for
examination, but the Dutch authorities refused until now, at nearly a year after
the evidence. The question that the Dutch authorities need to answer is that why
they waited so long for a simple examination.
If Mr Baybasin has been poisoned, after such along time, it is just possible
that the evidence would disappear in his blood, an expert told KurdishMedia.com.
Has Mr Baybasin been poisoned? Let us examine further.
More evidence of poisoning Mr Baybasin in prison has been found as one of the
prison guards, we call him David, told Mr Baybasin in January 2001, that he was
losing his colour, and that he should talk to his lawyer. David was believed to
be a religious man and simply could not accept what was going on against Mr
Baybasin. He realised that Mr Baybasin’s life was in danger and suggested that
his toothbrush should be examined. It was suggested that Mr Baybasin’s
toothbrush was poisoned in order to kill him slowly. David arrange sending Mr
Baybasin’s toothbrush to his lawyer.
The toothbrush was examined by a private laboratory in London. In June 2001, the
result of the test was positive. It was poisoned with a substance that impacted
Mr Baybasin’s memory.
Questions for Dutch authorities
Why was Mr Baybasin poisoned? One can only guess. Was he poisoned in order to
not function properly in his trial? It is not clear yet. What is clear, however,
is the security guard on the way to his trial in January 2001 physically and
verbally abused him. “Why did the security guard beat up Mr Baybasin on the way
to the trial?” Again one can only guess.
Divert Mr Baybasin’s attention form court
One may find consistency between these two actions, poisoning and physical
abuse. Perhaps they were conducted to disturb Mr Baybasin and divert his
attention form his court case. Whatever the objectives were, these are illegal
actions and the Dutch authorities are countable for them.
Apart from the “toothbrush affair”; there was also the “plastic affair” -
further evidence that Baybasin’s life was in danger. Mr Baybasin consistently
found pieces of plastic in his food and complained to the Supervisory Committee
for Vught Penitentiary Institutions in Vught (Nieuw Vosseveld)
Decisions were made by the sole complaints judge, from the supervisory committee
concerning the written complaint received on March 2001 from Mr Baybasin. This
was the evaluation:
“The sole complaints judge has the opinion that the complaint in question cannot
be considered as relating to a decision taken by or on behalf of the director,
as intended in Article 60, section 1 of the Prison Act. The complaint lodged by
the complainant therefore cannot be accepted.”
In plain English, the Dutch authorities, or a single judge, decided to take no
action to this complaint.
Questions for Dutch authorities
Was Mr Baybasin poisoned in prison? Were the toothbrush and plastic affairs just
a pack of lies? Did the prison guard, David, lie about attempts on Mr Baybasin’s
life? Why does it take nearly a year for Dutch authorities to hospitalise Mr
Baybasin? Do the Dutch authorities really want to murder Mr Baybasin in prison?
We shall examine even further.
Attempt on Baybasin’s life physically
However, if Mr Baybasin were murdered, he would not be the only one. Jails
security officers beat a Turkish prisoner, Mr Cemal Guclu, until he died on 15
September 1999. The commitment of murder was not even taken seriously to start
an investigation. The Dutch authorities blamed an English prisoner for Mr Cemal
Guclu’s death, allegedly to cover their tracks.
Now it is Mr Baybasin term. A Russian prisoner was allegedly provoked by the
Dutch jail’s authority to attack Mr Baybasin, in 1999. The Russian intended to
kill Mr Baybasin, but could not succeed. Later his lawyer took legal action
about this attack, and the Russian prisoner stated that he was provoked by the
Dutch authority to kill Mr Baybsin. However, the Russian prisoners suspiciously
transferred to another jail in another country, Belgium. This is very strange
indeed, to say the least.
Questions for Dutch authorities
Why should a prisoner be transferred to another country, for no good reasons?
According to EBI regime, it is impossible for any prisoner to be transferred to
even jail in Holland. The Dutch authorities need to answer this question.
Turkey wants to eliminate Baybasin
Authorities in Turkey have attempted to assassinate Mr Baybasin twice in - but
both times he was lucky to escape alive. The first assassination attempt was
tried in the beginning of 1997 and the second one was in September of 1997 in
the Netherlands.
He knew they would keep trying to succeed; so Mr Baybasin left to the
Netherlands, where the Dutch authorities were convinced, beyond shadow of doubt
that his life was in danger in Turkey and granted him political asylum.
However, Turkish authorities did not give up.
In Istanbul, a Turkish policeman informed one of Mr Baybasin’s relative,
confidentially, that the Turkish state would send their policemen to assassinate
Baybasin, who was running a business in the Netherlands at the time.
Finally, Mr Baybasin observed some unusual activities around him by a group that
was supported by Turkish nationalists in the Netherlands. Mehmet Marsil, who had
spent a long period in the Netherlands, got in touch with Mr Baybasin in 1997.
On the telephone, Marsil identified himself to Mr Baybasin as a needy Kurdish
man, requesting a job. Some time later, one of Mr Baybasin’s bodyguards asked
Marsil for his passport. Marsil was then proven to be a Turkish policeman, who
entered the Netherlands with a diplomatic passport. Mr Baybasin immediately
informed Dutch authorities in Rotterdam, but, to everyone’s surprise, no action
was taken. The Turkish Embassy in Rotterdam privately sent Marsil back to
Turkey. Soon after Marsil arrived in Turkey, he changed his statement,
complained that Mr Baybasin attempted to kill him.
This shocking news was on Dutch media for long period of time. It can also be
quoted from their TV programs and newspapers.
Dutch media got in touch with Mr Baybasin’s former lawyer, Mr Victor Koppe. He
stated: "The person who has informed us is trusted and a science man who is very
well informed about the Turkish people. A diplomatic passport holder, Mustafa
Sahin, from Turkey was sent on 14th of August 1997, by its government to the
Netherlands to assassinate my client. This incident was on Dutch press for a
long period. Dutch government is aware of this attack through to media"
Question for the Dutch authorities
Why was Mehmet Marsil given back to Turkey? If Mr Baybasin wanted to murder
Marsil, then why did he hand him to the Dutch Police Station?
Mr Baybasin’s next hearing is on 25 February 2002 and the result is expected on
25 March 2002.
Chronology
1992: Mr. Baybasin fled from Turkey due to his refusal of co-operation with
Turkish government led by Mr Suleyman Demirel, former President, Mrs. Tansu
Ciller, former Prime Minister and Mr. Mehmet Agar, the Interior Minister against
his own Kurdish people.
December 1995. Mr Baybasin was arrested by Dutch authorities, and Turkey
requested his extradition, but the Dutch refused. Mr Baybasin was given
political asylum and released a year later.
1997: The first assassination attempt on Mr Baybasin in the beginning of 1997
and the second one was in September of 1997 in the Netherlands. Mr Baybasin was
warned by the Dutch authorities to leave their country unless he would face the
consequences. Mr Baybasin did not take this warning serious.
1997: The Dutch authorities attributed all Mr Baybasin’s family assets to drug
trafficking since Mr Baybasin moved to the Netherlands in the same year. This
asset has been inherited in their family since 1800. Baybasin family is and has
been one of the influential and wealthy families in Turkey.
March 1998: Two brothers of Huseyin Baybasin, Abdullah Baybasin and Sirin
Baybasin, were arrested, together with Mehmet Cetin on in London.
1998: Late Mahmut Baksi, a well-known Kurdish intellect wrote a book containing
many articles about Dutch’s behaviour. The book was published in Turkish and
later translated into English. This behaviour of the Netherlands was being
condemned by Kurds and they took several campaigns.
September 1999: the Dutch jails security officer beat Mr Cemal Guclu, a Turkish
prisoner, to death, like many people before him.
December 2000: Mahmut Baksi passed away in exile after fighting off a fatal
disease for long time. Baksi has written a book and several articles in Ozgur
Politika, Turkish por-Kurdish daily, where he criticises the Dutch authorities
for their dirty relationships with Turkish state
June 2000: Ahmet Onal, the owner of the Peri Publishing House, which published
the book by Mahmut Baksi on the memoirs of Huseyin Baybasin, "The Hawk: Kurdish
Businessman Huseyin Baybasin", was taken to court by Turkish regime to face a 27
year sentence. Onal told the court, "For the past 25 years I’ve gone from
courtroom to courtroom. In all this time, I’ve never once had a weapon in my
hands. I’ve been faced with one court case after another purely because of my
belief in democracy. This book is in fact a document of confession. I published
it for the sake of justice and a clean society. I love this country. I published
it with no intent whatsoever of committing the offences with which I am charged.
I am innocent."
January 2001: Mr Baybasin was physically and verbally abused by prison security
guards on his way to the court.
January 2001: Mr Baybasin was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Dutch
court without evidence and a fair trial; the only evidence was that of the
Turkish state. Kurdish documents were not translated to be used as evidence.
January 2001: Turkish State has celebrated their victory and thanked the
Netherlands justice department for their effort in imprisoning Mr Baybasin.
September 2001: Ahmet ?nal, the owner of Peri Publishing House, was fined TL 1.9
billion for having published the book "Kurdish Businessman H?seyin Baybasin"
written by Mahmut Baksi, who died last year in exile. Istanbul SSC ruled that
the book violated Article 312/2 ("inciting the people to enmity and hatred".
December 2001: Mr Baybasin has started a hunger strike with 10 other prisoners
to condemn the condition in the jail and their treatments by the Dutch
authorities.
January 2002: Turkish authorities sent a happy new year’s card to Mr Baybasin,
as a threat, reminding him he is their victim.
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and your pathetic answer for this WolfWolf troll?
WolfWolf wrote:
> Now ask again for your substantiation - you have been told already where it
> is: in your derri?re.
> You slimy bastard ...
So there we have it,. The WolfWolf troll CAN NOT provide ANY SUBSTANTIATION.
Just more of his PKK diatribe and still NO ANSWER as to where the PKK was when
Turkey banned Kurdish language and called them "Mountain Turks"
He knows it is because Turkey's state terrorism began BEFORE THE PKK EVER
EXISTED.
That is why he always mentions the PKK but never what happened before PKK.
He is none other than a Grey Wolf troll who lost his credibility long ago.
> >
> > Read Mehmet Ali Birand article troll.
> >
> > http://www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/04_18_02/birand.htm
> >
>
> Well, well - once again unREAL is admitting that he is a LIAR.
> He gives no evidence, no substantiation for the quote:
> "Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey causes incidents to get what they want"
IT'S NOT A QUOTE IT'S BASICALLY WHAT HE IS SAYING YOU FOOL
Read Mehmet Ali Birand article troll.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/04_18_02/birand.htm
We found ourselves in a comic situation at EU meeting
LUXEMBOURG
developed:
constitutes the other key.
cannot make an assessment.
> For REAL - the Rotten Eroded Abhorrent Liar - advocating 'human rights'
> means to close the eyes and supporting the killing of innocent apostates.
GREY WOLF WOLFWOLF
"A great loss to the political life of Turkey."
Demirel about the death of the Nazi-sympathiser and former leader of
the fascist MHP and its Grey Wolves, Turkes
Grey Wolves
Region:
Middle East
Status:
Active
Established:
1983
Leader:
Abdullah Chatli ( killed in a 1996 car accident in Turkey)
Strength:
Unknown
History/Notes:
The National Movement Party ("Milliyetci Hareket Partisi", MHP, aka
Nationalist Action Party), founded by Alparslan Turkes
in the 1960s, like all other parties, was banned after the military
coup of September 12, 1980. The National Workers Party
("Milliyetci Calisma Partisi", MCP) was founded in 1983 as a successor
to the MHP, which as of 1992 is once again known as
the MHP. The MHP supports the government's military approach to an
11-year insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers Party
(PKK) in southeast Turkey, and it opposes any concessions to Kurdish
separatists.
The unofficial militant arm of the MHP -- known as the Grey Wolves
after a legendary she-wolf that led captive Central Asian
Turks to freedom -- has been involved in street killings and
gunbattles with leftists. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who
shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, was a former Grey Wolf.
The 1996 accidental death of the Grey Wolves'
leader, Chatli, brought to light the relations between Turkish mafia
and the government.
Stated Goal(s):
A significant pillar of the group's ideology is the creation of the
Turan, the Great Turkish Empire, including Turkish peoples in
the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Location:
Turkey
Area of Operation:
Turkey, Mediterranean area
Terrorist Acts:
July, 1996 - assassination of Kutlu Adali, a prominent Turkish Cypriot
journalist critical of the Denktash regime and, more
generally, of Turkey's policies in Cyprus.
1996 - Abdullah Chatli, the leader of the Grey Wolves, was are
responsible for arson fires in Greece's islands.
Support:
Had ties to former Government of Nicaragua and possibly Cuba.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~mullen/TG_Grey_Wolves.htm
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THE "GREY WOLVES" WERE FINANCED BY HOLLAND
The Hague, 17/05/1999 (MPA)
The Dutch local administration organization was the financial backer
of the Turkish extreme right "Grey Wolves" organization
from 1990 until 1996. The revelation was made by the Dutch newspaper
"Algemeen Dagblad" in a report signed by Frank
Renout and published in the May 15 issue. Based on facts provided by a
research conducted by the Dutch committee against
fascism and racism, the municipality of Utrecht had financed a number
of organizations of the Turkish extreme right "Grey
Wolves" in the period 1990-1996.
The newspaper published city council decisions according to which, the
Turkish Cultural Center, which in reality is an
extreme-right gang having links with the extreme right party MHP as
well as with the "Grey Wolves", has received 24.000
guilders.
The news report also mentions the statements made by Turkish-born
criminology professor in the University of Utrecht Mr.
Yesilgoz, who is specialising on issues concerning the Turkish
organized crime according to which, the financing of the "Grey
Wolves" is a usual phenomenon in Holland given the fact that the
Turkish right extremists often manage to mislead the Dutch
authorities over their true intentions.
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On the Trail of Turkey's Terrorist Grey Wolves
By Martin A. Lee
In broad daylight on May 2, 50 armed men set upon a television station
in Istanbul with gunfire. The attackers unleashed a
fusillade of bullets and shouted slogans supporting Turkey's Deputy
Prime Minister Tansu Ciller.
The gunmen were outraged over the station's broadcast of a TV report
critical of Ciller, a close U.S. ally who had come under
criticism for stonewalling investigations into collusion between state
security forces and Turkish criminal elements.
Miraculously, no one was injured in the attack, but the headquarters
of Independent Flash TV were left pock-marked with
bullet-holes and smashed windows. The gunfire also sent an
unmistakable message to Turkish journalists and legislators: don't
challenge Ciller and other high-level Turkish officials when they
cover up state secrets.
For several months, Turkey had been awash in dramatic disclosures
connecting high Turkish officials to the right-wing Grey
Wolves, the terrorist band which has preyed on the region for years.
In 1981, a terrorist from the Grey Wolves attempted to
assassinate Pope John Paul II in Vatican City.
But at the center of the mushrooming Turkish scandal is whether
Turkey, a strategically placed NATO country, allowed mafiosi
and right-wing extremists to operate death squads and to smuggle drugs
with impunity. A Turkish parliamentary commission is
investigating these new charges.
The rupture of state secrets in Turkey also could release clues to
other major Cold War mysteries. Besides the attempted papal
assassination, the Turkish disclosures could shed light on the
collapse of the Vatican bank in 1982 and the operation of a
clandestine pipeline that pumped sophisticated military hardware into
the Middle East -- apparently from NATO stockpiles in
Europe -- in exchange for heroin sold by the Mafia in the United
States.
The official Turkish inquiry was triggered by what could have been the
opening scene of a spy novel: a dramatic car crash on a
remote highway near the village of Susurluk, 100 miles southwest of
Istanbul. On Nov. 3, 1996, three people were crushed to
death when their speeding black Mercedes hit a tractor and overturned.
The crash killed Husseyin Kocadag, a top police
official who commanded Turkish counter-insurgency units.
But it was Kocadag's company that stunned the nation. The two other
dead were Abdullah Catli, a convicted fugitive who was
wanted for drug trafficking and murder, and Catli's girlfriend, Gonca
Us, a Turkish beauty queen turned mafia hit-woman. A
fourth occupant, who survived the crash, was Kurdish warlord Sedat
Bucak, whose militia had been armed and financed by the
Turkish government to fight Kurdish separatists.
At first, Turkish officials claimed that the police were transporting
two captured criminals. But evidence seized at the crash site
indicated that Abdullah Catli, the fugitive gangster, had been given
special diplomatic credentials by Turkish authorities. Catli
was carrying a government-approved weapons permit and six ID cards,
each with a different name. Catli also possessed
several handguns, silencers and a cache of narcotics, not the picture
of a subdued criminal.
When it became obvious that Catli was a police collaborator, not a
captive, the Turkish Interior Minister resigned. Several
high-ranking law enforcement officers, including Istanbul's police
chief, were suspended. But the red-hot scandal soon
threatened to jump that bureaucratic firebreak and endanger the
careers of other senior government officials.
Grey Wolves Terror
The news of Catli's secret police ties were all the more scandalous
given his well-known role as a key leader of the Grey
Wolves, a neo-fascist terrorist group that has stalked Turkey since
the late 1960s. A young tough who wore black leather
pants and looked like Turkey's answer to Elvis Presley, Catli
graduated from street gang violence to become a brutal enforcer
for the Grey Wolves. He rose quickly within their ranks, emerging as
second-in-command in 1978. That year, Turkish police
linked him to the murder of seven trade-union activists and Catli went
underground.
Three years later, the Grey Wolves gained international notoriety when
Mehmet Ali Agca, one of Catli's closest collaborators,
shot and nearly killed Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square on May
13, 1981. Catli was the leader of a fugitive terrorist cell
that included Agca and a handful of other Turkish neo-fascists.
Testifying in September 1985 as a witness at the trial of three
Bulgarians and four Turks charged with complicity in the papal
shooting in Rome, Catli (who was not a defendant) disclosed that he
gave Agca the pistol that wounded the pontiff. Catli had
previously helped Agca escape from a Turkish jail, where Agca was
serving time for killing a national newspaper editor. In
addition to harboring Agca, Catli supplied him with fake IDs and
directed Agca's movements in West Germany, Switzerland,
and Austria for several months prior to the papal attack.
Catli enjoyed close links to Turkish drug mafiosi, too. His Grey
Wolves henchmen worked as couriers for the Turkish mob
boss Abuzer Ugurlu. At Ugurlu's behest, Catli's thugs criss-crossed
the infamous smugglers' route passing through Bulgaria.
Those routes were the ones favored by smugglers who reportedly carried
NATO military equipment to the Middle East and
returned with loads of heroin.
Judge Carlo Palermo, an Italian magistrate based in Trento, discovered
these smuggling operations while investigating
arms-and-drug trafficking from Eastern Europe to Sicily. Palermo
disclosed that large quantities of sophisticated NATO
weaponry -- including machine guns, Leopard tanks and U.S.-built Cobra
assault helicopters -- were smuggled from Western
Europe to countries in the Middle East during the 1970s and early
1980s.
According to Palermo's investigation, the weapon delivers were often
made in exchange for consignments of heroin that filtered
back, courtesy of the Grey Wolves and other smugglers, through
Bulgaria to northern Italy. There, the drugs were received by
Mafia middlemen and transported to North America. Turkish morphine
base supplied much of the Sicilian-run "Pizza
connection," which flooded the U.S. and Europe with high-grade heroin
for several years.
[While it is still not clear how the NATO supplies entered the
pipeline, other investigations have provided some clues.
Witnesses in the October Surprise inquiry into an alleged
Republican-Iranian hostage deal in 1980 claimed that they were
allowed to select weapons from NATO stockpiles in Europe for shipment
to Iran.
[Iranian arms dealer Houshang Lavi claimed that he selected spare
parts for Hawk anti-aircraft batteries from NATO bases
along the Belgian-German border. Another witness, American arms broker
William Herrmann, corroborated Lavi's account of
NATO supplies going to Iran.
[Even former NATO commander Alexander Haig confirmed that NATO
supplies could have gone to Iran in the early 1980s
while he was secretary of state. "It wouldn't be preposterous if a
nation, Germany, for example, decided to let some of their
NATO stockpiles be diverted to Iran," Haig said in an interview. For
more details, see Robert Parry's Trick or Treason. ]
A Vatican Mystery
Italian magistrates described the network they had uncovered as the
"world's biggest illegal arms trafficking organization." They
linked it to Middle Eastern drug empires and to prestigious banking
circles in Italy and Europe. At the center of this operation, it
appeared, was an obscure import-export firm in Milan called Stibam
International Transport. The head of Stibam, a Syrian
businessman named Henri Arsan, also functioned as an informant for the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to
several Italian news outlets.
With satellite offices in New York, London, Zurich, and Sofia,
Bulgaria, Stibam officials recycled their profits through Banco
Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank which had close ties to the
Vatican until its sensational collapse in 1982. The collapse
of Banco Ambrosiano came on the heels of the still unsolved death of
its furtive president, Roberto Calvi, whose body was
found hanging underneath Blackfriar's Bridge in London in June 1982.
While running Ambrosiano, Calvi, nicknamed "God's
banker," served as advisor to the Vatican's extensive fiscal
portfolio.
At the same time in the mid- and late 1970s, Calvi's bank handled most
of Stibam's foreign currency transactions and owned
the building that housed Stibam's Milanese headquarters. In effect,
the Vatican Bank -- by virtue of its interlocking relationship
with Banco Ambrosiano -- was fronting for a gigantic contraband
operation that specialized in guns and heroin.
The bristling contraband operation that traversed Bulgaria was a
magnet for secret service agents on both sides of the Cold
War divide. Crucial, in this regard, was the role of Kintex, a
Sofia-based, state-controlled import-export firm that worked in
tandem with Stibam and figured prominently in the arms trade. Kintex
was riddled with Bulgarian and Soviet spies -- a fact
which encouraged speculation that the KGB and its Bulgarian proxies
were behind the plot against the pope.
But Western intelligence also had its hooks into the Bulgarian
smuggling scene, as evidenced by the CIA's use of Kintex to
channel weapons to the Nicaraguan contras in the early 1980s.
The Reagan administration jumped on the papal assassination attempt as
a propaganda opportunity, rather than helping to
unravel the larger mystery. Although the CIA's link to the
arms-for-drugs traffic in Bulgaria was widely known in espionage
circles, hard-line U.S. and Western European officials promoted
instead a bogus conspiracy theory that blamed the papal
shooting on a communist plot.
The so-called "Bulgarian connection" became one of the more effective
disinformation schemes hatched during the Reagan era.
It reinforced the notion of the Soviet Union as an evil empire. But
the apparent hoax also diverted attention from extensive --
and potentially embarrassing -- ties between U.S. intelligence and the
Turkey's narco-trafficking ultra-right.
Fabrication of the conspiracy theory might have even involved
suborning perjury. During his September 1985 court testimony in
Rome, Catli asserted that he had been approached by the West German
BND spy organization, which allegedly promised him
a large sum of money if he implicated the Bulgarian secret service and
the KGB in the attempt on the pope's life.
Five years later, ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman disclosed that his
colleagues, under pressure from CIA higher-ups,
skewed their reports to try to lend credence to the contention that
the Soviets were involved. "The CIA had no evidence linking
the KGB to the plot," Goodman told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Friends of the Wolves
Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, the CIA station chief in Rome at the time of
the papal shooting, had previously been posted in
Ankara. Clarridge was the CIA's man-on-the-spot in Turkey in the 1970s
when armed bands of Grey Wolves unleashed a
wave of bomb attacks and shootings that killed thousands of people,
including public officials, journalists, students, lawyers,
labor organizers, social democrats, left-wing activists and ethnic
Kurds. [In his 1997 memoirs, A Spy for All Seasons,
Clarridge makes no reference to the Turkish unrest or to the pope
shooting.]
During those violent 1970s, the Grey Wolves operated with the
encouragement and protection of the Counter-Guerrilla
Organization, a section of the Turkish Army's Special Warfare
Department. Headquartered in the U.S. Military Aid Mission
building in Ankara, the Special Warfare Department received funds and
training from U.S. advisors to create "stay behind"
squads comprised of civilian irregulars. They were supposed to go
underground and engage in acts of sabotage if the Soviets
invaded.
Similar Cold War paramilitary units were established in every NATO
member state, covering all non-Communist Europe like a
spider web that would entangle Soviet invaders. But instead of
preparing for foreign enemies, U.S.-sponsored stay-behind
operatives in Turkey and several European countries used their skills
to attack domestic opponents and foment violent
disorders. Some of those attacks were intended to spark right-wing
military coups.
In the late 1970s, former military prosecutor and Turkish Supreme
Court Justice Emin Deger documented collaboration
between the Grey Wolves and the government's counter-guerrilla forces
as well as the close ties of the latter to the CIA.
Turkey's Counter-Guerrilla Organization handed out weapons to the Grey
Wolves and other right-wing terrorist groups. These
shadowy operations mainly engaged in the surveillance, persecution and
torture of Turkish leftists, according to retired army
commander Talat Turhan, the author of three books on counter-guerrilla
activities in Turkey.
But the extremists launched one wave of political violence which
provoked a 1980 coup by state security forces that deposed
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit. The Turkish security forces cited the
need to restore order which had been shattered by rightist
terrorist groups secretly sponsored by those same state security
forces.
Cold War Roots
Since the earliest days of the Cold War, Turkey's strategic importance
derived from its geographic position as the West's
easternmost bulwark against Soviet communism. In an effort to weaken
the Soviet state, the CIA also used pan-Turkish
militants to incite anti-Soviet passions among Muslim Turkish
minorities inside the Soviet Union, a strategy that strengthened ties
between U.S. intelligence and Turkey's ultra-nationalists.
Though many of Turkish ultra-nationalists were anti-Western as well as
anti-Soviet, the Cold War realpolitik compelled them to
support a discrete alliance with NATO and U.S. intelligence. Among the
Turkish extremists collaborating in this anti-Soviet
strategy were the National Action Party and its paramilitary youth
group, the Grey Wolves.
Led by Colonel Alpaslan Turkes, the National Action Party espoused a
fanatical pan-Turkish ideology that called for reclaiming
large sections of the Soviet Union under the flag of a reborn Turkish
empire. Turkes and his revanchist cohorts had been
enthusiastic supporters of Hitler during World War II. "The Turkish
race above all others" was their Nazi-like credo. In a
similar vein, Grey Wolf literature warned of a vast
Jewish-Masonic-Communist conspiracy and its newspapers carried ads for
Turkish translations of Nazi texts.
The pan-Turkish dream and its anti-Soviet component also fueled ties
between the Grey Wolves and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc
of Nations (ABN), a CIA-backed coalition led by erstwhile fascist
collaborators from East Europe. Ruzi Nazar, a leading
figure in the Munich-based ABN, had a long-standing relationship with
the CIA and the Turkish ultra-nationalists. In the 1950s
and 1960s, Nazar was employed by Radio Free Europe, a CIA-founded
propaganda effort.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the shifting geopolitical
terrain created new opportunities -- political and financial --
for Colonel Turkes and his pan-Turkish crusaders. After serving a
truncated prison term in the 1980s for his role in
masterminding the political violence that convulsed Turkey, Turkes and
several of his pan-Turkish colleagues were permitted to
resume their political activities.
In 1992, the colonel visited his long lost Turkish brothers in newly
independent Azerbaijan and received a hero's welcome. In
Baku, Turkes endorsed the candidacy of Grey Wolf sympathizer Abulfex
Elcibey, who was subsequently elected president of
Azerbaijan and appointed a close Grey Wolf ally as his Interior
Minister.
The Gang Returns
By this time, Abdullah Catli was also back in circulation after
several years of incarceration in France and Switzerland for
heroin trafficking. In 1990, he escaped from a Swiss jail cell and
rejoined the neo-fascist underground in Turkey.
Despite his documented links to the papal shooting and other terrorist
attacks, Catli was pressed into service as a death squad
organizer for the Turkish government's dirty war against the Kurds who
have long struggled for independence inside both
Turkey and Iraq. Turkish Army spokesmen acknowledged that the
Counter-Guerrilla Organization (renamed the Special
Forces Command in 1992) was involved in the escalating anti-Kurdish
campaign.
Turkey got a wink and a nod from Washington as a quid pro quo for
cooperating with the United States during the Gulf War.
Turkish jets bombed Kurdish bases inside Iraqi territory. Meanwhile,
on the ground, anti-Kurdish death squads were
assassinating more than 1,000 non-combatants in southeastern Turkey.
Hundreds of other Kurds "disappeared" while in police
custody. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the European
Parliament all condemned the Turkish security forces
for these abuses.
Still, there was no hard evidence that Turkey's security forces had
recruited criminal elements as foot soldiers. That evidence
surfaced only on Nov. 3, 1996, when Catli' died in the fateful auto
accident near Susurluk. Strewn amidst the roadside
wreckage was proof of what many journalists and human rights activists
had long suspected -- that successive Turkish
governments had protected narco-traffickers, sheltered terrorists and
sponsored gangs of killers to suppress Turkish dissidents
and Kurdish rebels.
Colonel Turkes confirmed that Catli had performed clandestine duties
for Turkey's police and military. "On the basis of my
state experience, I admit that Catli has been used by the state," said
Turkes. Catli had been cooperating "in the framework of a
secret service working for the good of the state," Turkes insisted.
U.S.-backed Turkish officials, including Tansu Ciller, Prime Minister
from 1993-1996, also defended Catli after the car crash.
"I don't know whether he is guilty or not," Ciller stated, "but we
will always respectfully remember those who fire bullets or
suffer wounds in the name of this country, this nation and this
state."
Eighty members of the Turkish parliament have urged the federal
prosecutor to file charges of criminal misconduct against
Ciller, who currently serves as Turkey's Foreign Minister, as well as
Deputy Prime Minister. They asserted that the Susurluk
incident provided Turkey "with a historic opportunity to expose
unsolved murders and the drugs and arms smuggling that have
been going on in our country for years."
The scandal momentarily reinvigorated the Turkish press, which
unearthed revelations about criminals and police officials
involved in the heroin trade. But journalists also have been victims
of death squads in recent years. The violent attack on
Independent Flash TV was a reminder. Prosecutors have faced pressure,
too, from superiors who are not eager to delve into
state secrets. Thus far, no charges have been lodged against Ciller.
Across the Atlantic in Washington, the U.S. government has yet to
acknowledge any responsibility for the Turkish Frankenstein
that U.S. Cold War strategy helped to create. When asked about the
Susurluk affair, a State Department spokesperson said it
was "an internal Turkish matter." He declined further comment. ~
Martin A. Lee's book on neo-fascism, The Beast Reawakens, will be
published by Little, Brown in July.
(c) Copyright 1999
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WolfWolf
"REAL" <traprea...@SPAMTRAPPEDhotmail.com> wrote in message
You don't expect us to consider as answer a fake, fabricated story made by
the propaganda cohorts of your terrorist friends which only tells us that a
convicted and imprisoned criminal isn't happy with the taste of his
toothpaste, silencing conveniently his abominable crimes for which he is
imprisoned *for lifetime*, do you?
Now let us see in which kind of 'business' your friend 'businessman'