Fikret Emek (born 20 September 1963 in
Emirdağ
Emirdağ is a town and district of Afyonkarahisar Province in Turkey, between the city of Afyon and Eskişehir. The district covers an area of 2,009 km2, and the population (2014) is 38,269 of which 19,093 live in the town of Emirdağ itself. ...
) is a retired soldier from the
Special Forces Command ( tr, Özel Kuvvetler Komutanlığı, ÖKK); a
special forces unit active in the
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the curr ...
.
He was one of the first people detained in the
Ergenekon investigation
Ergenekon () was the name given to an alleged clandestine, secular ultra-nationalist organization in Turkey with possible ties to members of the country's military and security forces. The would-be group, named after Ergenekon, a mythical pla ...
; an investigation into a supposed
neonationalist organization that allegedly planned to overthrow the Turkish government. The investigation started when 27 grenades allegedly belonging to him were discovered following a then anonymous tip-off.
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Biography
Emek was born in Emirdağ. In 1985 he graduated from the Turkish Military Academy
The Turkish Military Academy ( tr, Kara Harp Okulu) is a four-year co-educational military academy and part of the National Defence University. It is located in the center of Ankara, Turkey. Its mission is to develop cadets mentally and ph ...
( tr, Kara Harp Okulu). Later he joined the ÖKK, and retired in 2005.[
He lives close to his widowed mother in ]Eskişehir
Eskişehir ( , ; from "old" and "city") is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 898,369 with a metropolitan population of 797,708. The city is located on the banks of the ...
.
Ergenekon
He is notable for possessing the most munitions of any person detained in the investigation; more than enough to flatten a twelve-floor reinforced concrete building. His mother was safekeeping the munitions which he allegedly he had seized from PKK
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of sout ...
militants while on duty.[Personally keeping weapons belonging to the enemy is illegal in Turkey.] Also confiscated were numerous documents including classified military information,[Such as the country's "most secret" document, the National Security Policy Document ( tr, Milli Güvenlik Siyaset Belgesi), also known as the Red Book.] and black lists.[
On 5 August 2013 Emek was sentenced to 41 years and four months.][ Today's Zaman, 5 August 2013]
Long sentences for Ergenekon suspects, life for ex-army chief
Footnotes
References
1963 births
Living people
People from Emirdağ
Turkish Army officers
Turkish Military Academy alumni
People convicted in the Ergenekon trials
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