http://www.drcetiner.com/law/ergenekon-case.html Blogs: Dr. Cetiner's Personal Blogs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:24:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.drcetiner.com/law/ergenekon-case.html#comment-4472 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:50:39 +0000 http://www.drcetiner.com/law/ergenekon-case.html#comment-4472 [...] Ertugrul Gunay, the culture minister, has another explanation. He believes the case is connected to recent arrests of generals, academics and journalists linked to a string of murders, including that of an ethnic-Armenian editor, Hrant Dink (known as Ergenekon). Proponents of this theory note that Turkey’s first Islamist-led government was ejected in 1997 after it began investigating links between the army and organised crime. Another theory is that the case was prompted by AK’s efforts to ease the strict secular ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities. This move is cited in Mr Yalcinkaya’s indictment. Other “evidence” is said to range from the AK-run Istanbul council’s censoring of bikini ads to an AK official’s observation that “asking a pious girl to remove her headscarf is akin to telling an uncovered one to remove her underpants”. [...] […] Ertugrul Gunay, the culture minister, has another explanation. He believes the case is connected to recent arrests of generals, academics and journalists linked to a string of murders, including that of an ethnic-Armenian editor, Hrant Dink (known as Ergenekon). Proponents of this theory note that Turkey’s first Islamist-led government was ejected in 1997 after it began investigating links between the army and organised crime. Another theory is that the case was prompted by AK’s efforts to ease the strict secular ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities. This move is cited in Mr Yalcinkaya’s indictment. Other “evidence” is said to range from the AK-run Istanbul council’s censoring of bikini ads to an AK official’s observation that “asking a pious girl to remove her headscarf is akin to telling an uncovered one to remove her underpants”. […]

]]> http://www.drcetiner.com/law/ergenekon-case.html#comment-4468 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:40:19 +0000 http://www.drcetiner.com/law/ergenekon-case.html#comment-4468 [...] Many people in public and also some ministers from government such as Ertugrul Gunay believe that there is a connection between the Ergenekon case and prosecution of a case brought by chief prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya. According to another columnist Murat Yetkin:- [...] […] Many people in public and also some ministers from government such as Ertugrul Gunay believe that there is a connection between the Ergenekon case and prosecution of a case brought by chief prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya. According to another columnist Murat Yetkin:- […]

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