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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
Expressing his resen'ations
about the commission report,
Saglar says a complaint must
be filed against Özer Çiller and
Prime Minister Erbakan too
AYLA GANÎOGLU
Ankara- TDN Parliament Bureau
• The parliamentary commission looking
into "state gang" claims triggered by a mysterious
road accident which occurred in
Susurluk on Nov. 3, 1996, completed its
work and published its report. But now the
:opposition representatives in the commission
are expressing their reservations to the
report adopted with the votes of the ruling
party representatives. On Friday,
Republican People's Party (CHP) representative
in the commission Fkri Saglar said
in Turkey there existed "illegally founded
gang~ supported morally and materially by
certam segments of the state."
Saglar said, in his 20-page "reservations,"
that a parliamentary investigation
should be started into True Path Party
(DYP) leader Tansu Çiller, a former prime
minister currently serving as Deputy Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister. He recalled
that Çiller had declared, "Those who fire
bullets and who get hit by bullets for the
sake of the state are honorable persons,"
referring to Abdullah. Çath, the former
Ülkücü (member of an ultranationalist
movement) chief who was wanted by the
Interpol for a variety of crimes. He said, "A
motion for a parliamentary investigation of
Çiller must be tabled with the conviction
that she must have known about all the relevant
incidents, as can be deduced from
these words, and has failed to act with the .
wisdom administrators should have in a
state upholding the rule of law."
Saglar maintained that Çiller carried a
bigger "political and criminal responsibility"
than anyone else in the "pOlitICSand
economy becoming Mafia-like." He noted
that DYP Deputy Mehmet Agar, who
resigned as interior minister due to the pressure
he came under following the Susurluk
accident, is ~'one.pf the names at the peak of
these incidents." He said that a parliamen- .
tary investigation should be started against
Agar too.
Referring to the DYP Deputy and clan
leader Sedat Bucak, the sole survivor of the
Susurluk incident, Saglar said that Bucak
too should be investigated because of the
claims about his "illegal activities in the
Southeast," and about his role as a village
guards chief.
Saglar said that an independent investigation
is needed a\~o into Tansu Çiller letting
her husband, Ozer Çiller, in on state ...
secrets and involving him in many state
activities despite the fact that he is not a
public official. He stressed that the commission
should have filed a complaint against
Özer Çiller with the relevant prosecutor' s
office. He noted that Nuri Uünde~, a former
National Intelligence Organization (MIT)
official, had told the commission that during
the time he served as the chief adviser
for security affairs at the Prime Ministry. he
could not gain access to then-Prime
Minister Tansu ÇilJer, and, as a result, he
used to present to Ozer Çiller the reports he
drafted.
Another issue on which Saglar expressed
reservations about the commission report
involved the Istanbul State Security Court
prosecutor's bid to have DYP deputies
Mehmet Agar and Sedat Bucak stripped of
their legislative immunity so that criminal
charges could be brought against them.
Saglar noted that the prosecutor's reports to
this effect have been kept at the Prime
Ministry since end of January, effectively
blocking this process. He said, "This has
been the latest and most substantial example
of the behind-the-scenes political protection
behind the Susurluk phenomenon.
Looking at the positions of Agar and
Bucak, one observes that political protection
has been at force in all these incidents.
For its own future the government is resisting
the legal requirement."
Saglar stressed that the commission
should file a complaint with the prosecutor'
s office against RP leader and Prime
Minister Erbakan too for keeping the
reports against Agar and Bucak in his possession
without doing anything about them,
and without giving any legal reason for his
failure to duly relay these to Parliament.
Saglar pointed out that when investigat-.
ing the "gang relationships within the
state," one should start from "Gladia" the
organization said to have .l:!eenestablished
in NATO countries. Noting that in Turkey
these relationships have not been "solved,"
Saglar said, "In light of the information presented
to our commission, we have come to
hear, to our great surprise, that in the early
1990s, a decision had been made to resort
to inegal means in the fight against terrorism,
which was escalating in the Southeast
and in the wake of the Ne\Vroz incidents."
Saglar stressed that after Çiller, prime minister
at that time, said, "We know about the
businessmen supporting the PKK (outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party) and we will do •
what is required," came a series of suspicious
deaths. .
Maintaining that the bloodshed in the
Southeast was continuing due to the gangs !
which have infiltrated the state, Sa~lar said,:
"The instability in that region facilitates
such activities as narcotics and arms smuggling,
robbery and abduction for ransom,
that is, the main sources of the hot money
generated in the region." He noted that due
largely to the authority vacuum in th~
region, narcotics base materials commg
from Afghanistan and Pakistan can .be
brought into Turkey and processed lI,1~~
country. He claimed that there were dl.IClt
narcotics labs in many parts of the regIOn.
As a result of these actlvit~e~,h~t ~oney
amounting to some $ 50 bIlhon ISclTculating
in Turkey, he stressed.
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