RETIRED COLONEL ARRESTED IN ‘INTERNET MEMORANDUM’ CASE
Hurriyet
Aug 9, 2011
Turkey
Retired Col. Fuat Selvi is sent to Hasdal Prison after being
arrested. AA photo
An Istanbul court on Tuesday ruled to arrest retired Col. Fuat Selvi,
who is a suspect in the “Internet Memorandum” investigation.
Selvi was the first to be brought to the court among 14 suspects,
which the Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court ordered to appear. In
Tuesday’s hearing, the retired colonel pleaded innocent, but the
court decided to arrest him on “strong suspicion of guilt.”
Selvi is a suspect in a probe into the Internet Memorandum, an alleged
document by the General Staff about setting up 42 Internet sites to
distribute propaganda against the AKP, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’
Party, or PKK, and Greeks and Armenians.
Retired Col. Dursun Cicek, who is currently on trial in four different
alleged coup-plot cases, confirmed the existence of the memorandum
at a hearing earlier this month.
“The ‘Internet Memorandum’ is a real document,” Cicek said Aug. 1
at a hearing for the case regarding the Action Plan for the Fight
against Fundamentalism. “If this fake plan [the Action Plan] was real,
I would have said that.”
That plan allegedly includes strategies to end both AKP rule and
the activities of the Fethullah Gulen community, a religious group
believed to have links to the government.
The court that arrested Selvi on Monday ordered 14 suspects, including
Gen. Nusret TaÅ~_deler, the former head of the Aegean forces who
was appointed as head of the army’s educational command during the
recent Supreme Military Council, or YAÅ~^, and Ä°smail Hakkı Pekin,
the intelligence chief of the General Staff, to appear before court.
The court also ruled that the Internet Memorandum case be merged with
the Action Plan for the Fight against Fundamentalism case.
Retired Gen. Hasan Igsız, the former head of the First Army, is also
among the suspects.
The other military personnel ordered to be brought to court were Adm.
Mehmet Otuzbiroglu, Gen. Mehmet Eröz, Gen. Hıfzı Cubuklu,
Gen. Mustafa Bakıcı, Adm. Alaettin Sevim, Col. Sedat Ozuer and
Retired Col. Fuat Selvi.
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