The Doğu Çalışma Grubu (DÇG; ) was an alleged group within the Turkish military said to be linked to the

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organization, and possibly organised within the

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JITEM Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele or Jandarma İstihbarat Teşkilatı (abbr. ''JİTEM'' or ''JİT''; English: "Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism" or "Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization") is the intelligence department of ...

.dunyabulteni.net, 29 January 2009
Jitem'in Doğu Çalışma Grubu deşifre edildi
According to former PKK commander Şemdin Sakık, the group was formed in 1993 and carried out a number of assassinations in preparation for the 1993 alleged Turkish military coup. According to Sakık, these assassinations included (in 1993) President

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, former Major

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, former

general commander

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, 6 November 2012
Secret witness reveals identity, shady ties between PKK and Ergenekon
and General Bahtiyar Aydın.

, 1 June 2012
Ex-PKK commander Sakık blames military junta for deaths of 33 soldiers
Turgut Özal died in office on 17 April 1993 in suspicious circumstances and few and a month later the 24 May 1993, PKK ambush took place, breaking the

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which Özal had led. Sakık maintains the attack was part of the DÇG's coup plans. Şemdin Sakık also ascribes the death of Colonel Rıdvan Özden (1995) to the DÇG.

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* '' Haberturk'', 25 February 2012
28 Şubat'ın 'Doğu Çalışma Grubu' çıktı
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dogu Calisma Grubu Susurluk scandal Ergenekon (allegation)

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