Erol Mütercimler (born 1954 in

Kars Kars ( or ; ; ) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District.� ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

) is a Turkish

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and academic. He is a retired naval officer. In 2009 he was charged in the second indictment of the

Ergenekon trials The Ergenekon trials or the Ergenekon conspiracy, were a series of high-profile trials which took place in 2008–2016 in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Erge ...

. Mütercimler is "widely credited as being the first person to have written about Ergenekon", initially describing it in an interview in ''

Aydınlık ''Aydınlık'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (''Vatan Partisi''). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011. Histo ...

'' in 1997, during public discussion of the

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. Mütercimler said he heard of the original organization's existence from retired general

Memduh Ünlütürk Memduh Ünlütürk (1913 - 7 April 1991) was a Turkish general associated with the Counter-Guerrilla and the anti-communist Ziverbey interrogations following the 1971 coup. He was assassinated at his Istanbul home by members of the left-wing rev ...

(who was assassinated in 1991), who was involved in the anti-communist Ziverbey interrogations following the 1971 coup. In 2012 he testified that he had initially dismissed the organization, but that Admiral Kemal Kayacan (assassinated in 1992) had told him to take it seriously, calling it "the name of the organization that plots everything".

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, 2 February 2012
Don't treat TSK and junta as the same

Books

* ''Gençler İçin Fikrimizin Rehberi'' (2013), Alfa Basım Yayım Dağıtım. * ''Ertuğrul Faciası: 21.Yüzyıla Doğru Türkiye - Japonya İlişkisi'' (2010), Alfa Basım Yayım Dağıtım. * ''Gelibolu 1915 (Ciltli)'' (2010), Alfa Basım Yayım Dağıtım. * ''Komplo Teorileri: Aynanın Ardında Kalan Gerçekler'' (2010), Alfa Basım Yayım Dağıtım. * ''Satılık Ada Kıbrıs: Kıbrıs Barış Harekatının Bilinmeyen Yönleri'' (2009), Alfa Basım Yayım Dağıtım. * ''Destanlaşan Gemiler'' (1987)

References

1954 births Living people People from Kars Turkish journalists Turkish columnists Turkish writers Turkish conspiracy theorists Turkish people of Azerbaijani descent {{Turkey-journalist-stub