JITEM'S BLACK FACE

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
JITEM'S BLACK FACE
http://rastibini. blogspot. com/2008/ 08/jitems- black-face. html

"Beginning on 14 January 1994, almost a hundred people were
individually picked up by commandos wearing uniforms and travelling
in police vehicles. They were then killed somewhere along the road
from Ankara to Istanbul, in the "satanic triangle" of Kocaeli, a
fiefdom of the far-right mafia and a focal point for the trafficking
of heroin into Europe."
~ Kendal Nezan.

What follows is not exactly news because it's typical behavior of
JITEM with which Kurds in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan have long been
familiar. But this news did come out in a Turkish daily and,
according to the article, the information is contained in one of the
Ergenekon files. This is the tip of the iceburg and shows that DTP
politicians, such as Ahmet Türk and Emine Ayna are correct in their
calls for the Ergenekon investigation to be expanded to the east of
the Fýrat (Euphrates).

This news is also at odds with the Bush regime's recent attempt to
blacken PKK with charges of drug-trafficking, especially since it's
widely known that the Ankara regime has long held a regional
monopoly on the processing of heroin, a fact which has been a
recurring theme in the Sibel Edmonds case.

From Bugün:
http://www.bugun. com.tr/haber_ detay.asp? haberID=37615

Here is JITEM's black face

An important document was found in the house of [Adnan] Akfýrat, who
has been arrested in the Ergenekon case. In the document, activities
of troops on duty on the border [in The Southeast] between 1981 to
1990, were outlined in detail.

In Ergenekon's documents, which are noted as "The Writings of a Non-
Commissioned Officer Who Wrote Additional Information for JITEM
Files to Be Given to the Jandarma Headquarters Command", the duties
that were carried out by the troops which were on duty between 1981
to 1990 in Þýrnak, Diyarbakýr, Van, and other border regions,
including some soldiers ranked as field grade officers, were listed
in detail.

This informant document about JITEM was found in Adnan Akfýrat's
house, who was the news manager of [Doðu] Perinçek's magazine,
published in the 1990s, called Toward 2000. According to the NCO who
wrote the document, high-ranking soldiers conducted illegal drug-
trafficking and arms sales with Village Guards in conflict areas
like Diyarbakýr, Van, and Þýrnak.

Narcotic and human trafficking

In the informant document, it is mentioned that the soldiers and
Village Guards who smuggled weapons and tons of narcotics to Iraq
earned huge sums of money. Human trafficking, the weapons and
narcotics trade, and the rape of refugee women are some of the
crimes committed by JITEM personnel. Despite being caught, they
[JITEM personnel, soldiers, and Village Guards involved in this
business] were protected by MÝT.

They sold weapons to PKK

The informant document, which is in the Ergenekon indictment's 208th
evidence file, mentions that Major Kamber O, Lieutenant Colonel
Reþit D, Major Ýsmail A, First Lieutenant Cihan B, First Lieutenant
Kemal Þ, Sergeant Ýbrahim K, Diyarbakýr JITEM Group Commander Major
Nurettin, established a group which included also Village Guards,
and conducted human and narcotics trafficking, and weapons smuggling.

150,000 weapons collected

The claims in the informant document are terrifying:

First Lieutenant Cihan B was the commander of the 4th Border Company
in Ortabað, which was under the command of the Þenoba Border
Battalion. Some Village Guards were among his men. From time to
time, he sent these men to Iraq to buy TVs, videos, tapes,
electronic games, and electronic devices. He sold these in
Diyarbakýr's Japan Bazaar. During the Gulf War, he assisted Iraqi
refugees in crossing the border into Turkey, for a price. There were
approximately 300,000 refugees. He collected around 150,000 weapons.

Sergeant Ýbrahim K shared money and gems that he collected from the
refugees, with the battalion commander. He forced refugee women to
have sexual relations.

First Lieutenant Kemal Þ smuggled flocks of sheep and tons of flour
to Iraq during the war.

Now I know you noticed the sub-headline mentioning the sales of
weapons to PKK, but there was no other mention of PKK in the entire
article. If there were sales of weapons to PKK outlined in the
informant document of the Ergenekon file, there would have been more
information about that included in the Bugün article. Instead, what
we have in the sub-headline is nothing more than gratuitous crap.

Most of the information here is pretty mild compared to the horrors
that were visited upon the Kurdish population from 1990 onward.
Those years must also be investigated and the information published
in every Turkish daily.