Turkey - Internal Political Affairs

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Well it is good for the hopes of genocide recognition. From an Israeli perspective Turkey was basically a false friend anyways. So everyone wins, except the current Turkish govt of course.

I wonder how the assassination would've taken place though. The Mossad would've most probably operated with poison. If not that then a massive car bomb which would be carried out as a false flag operation and blamed on some new "terror group" and/or Al Qaeda.

But such an operation is currently impossible to pull off as Erdogan remains hugely popular at home and it would only strengthen his party supporters.

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Well it is good for the hopes of genocide recognition. From an Israeli perspective Turkey was basically a false friend anyways. So everyone wins, except the current Turkish govt of course.

[Federate]

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Was Mossad planning Erdogan assassination?

31.03.2009 15:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish media sources detail information implicating the Israeli Mossad in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

An e-mail found on a personal computer belonging to one of the members of the underground Ergenekon organization exposed Mossad's role in the failed assassination efforts against Erdogan, Turkish media outlets reported on Friday.

The organization has been accused of orchestrating a coup plot against the current Turkish administration.

The indictment list tabled by the Turkish prosecution against the organization says that an Israeli journalist had sent the e-mail to a number of Ergenekon figures to inform them of Israeli readiness to assassinate the Turkish premier.

According to sources in the Turkish press, the e-mail promised support for Mr. Dugo - whose identity has not been revealed - against Erdogan after coordination with Mossad chief Meir Dagan.

The e-mail explained that the Mossad would wait for a green light from Mr. Dugo to carry on with the assassination plans.

Turkish sources have claimed Mr. Dugo to be Turkish Labor Party head Dogu Perincek - who is suspected of leading the secret organization.

The news of an alleged Israeli role in the plot comes after a report last month suggested that Tel Aviv sought to stage regime change in Turkey in response to Ankara's condemnation of Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Tensions between Israel and Turkey emerged in late January, when Erdogan stormed out of a Davos forum after a heated debate with Israeli President Shimon Peres on the military aggression brought upon Gaza.

The Turkish prime minister walked out of the debate - attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other panel members -, while complaining that his comments on the conflict were cut short by the Washington Post's moderator David Ignatius.

Erdogan had told Peres at the Forum, "When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill."

The criticism was leveled at the Israeli killing of over 1,350 Gazans amid a crippling 20-month blockade on the densely-populated Palestinian sliver.

"I know very well how you hit and killed children on beaches," he lashed out, Iran’s PressTV reports.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=29970

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An offshoot to "Azerbaijan - Internal Political Affairs" where Turkey's internal politics can be discussed.

Big news to kick off the thread as neo-Grey Wolf BBP founder and leader is killed. The BBP was the organization to which Ogun Samast and Yasin Hayal (the Dink murderers) had connections to. Here's more about the BBP.
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Six including far-right Turkish party leader killed in helicopter crash


Six bodies, including the leader of a Turkish party, have been found as search teams locate the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in a mountainous region two days ago, TV channels reported on Friday. (UPDATED)

Six including far-right Turkish party leader killed in helicopter crash

All six aboard, including the leader of the far-right Great Unity Party (BBP), Muhsin Yazicioglu, were killed in the accident, village guards at the scene told TV channels.

The helicopter has been smashed into pieces and is spread over an area of about 50-60 meters, and the bodies inside the wreckage are frozen and barely recognizable, village guard Abidin Karatas told broadcaster CNNTurk from the crash site.

Another village guard, Remzi Gok, told broadcaster HaberTurk that the crash was probably caused by heavy fog. "The front of the helicopter is completely smashed, but the back section looks undamaged," he said.

Hasan Caglayan, a member of Yazicioglu’s party, they would not declare him dead until a party official was able to identify him. Turkish military dispatched units to the site to retrieve the bodies.

Turkish military dispatched units to the site to retrieve the bodies.

The wreckage of the helicopter was located on a snow covered mountain top between the towns of Sisne and Elmali in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaras.

Several helicopters and thousands of rescue workers, including village guards, soldiers, party members and local villagers, were involved in the search that had been hampered by heavy snow storms and fog.

Ismail Gunes, a cameraman for Turkish Ihlas News Agency (IHA), was among the dead. The journalist's anguished emergency call was broadcast nationwide Thursday. Gunes said he was wedged in the wreckage with a badly broken foot and was freezing. He said some of the other passengers appeared to be dead, and that his cell phone battery was running out.

The helicopter, carrying the six, crashed Wednesday in the province of Kahramanmaras, as it was returning from a rally ahead of Sunday's local elections.

Yazicioglu, the leader of the small opposition BBP, was born in 1954 in the eastern Turkish province of Sivas, which he represents in parliament. He was married with two children.

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11302582.asp?gid=244