Castle Plan
| Castle Plan | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |||
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| Belligerents | |||
 Police Special Operation Teams, Village guards and others |
 PKK | ||
The Castle Plan (
Special Forces Command
, to assassinate PKK members and supporters.
The plan was approved by the
Doğu Çalışma Grubu's coup plans.[4] The Castle Plan was put into effect after Tansu Çiller became Prime Minister on 25 June 1993.[1]
Victims of the plan included the
Kurdish Hizbollah also became more active against the PKK, with the support of police and military training.[6]
The 1996 Susurluk car crash exposed some of the workings of the Castle Plan, and led to the Susurluk scandal as some of the connections between the police, armed forces and the mafia were exposed.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "1998 Report" (PDF). Ankara: Human Rights Foundation of Turkey. 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-05.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Michael M. Gunter (1998): "Susurluk: The connection between turkey's intelligence community and organized crime", International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 11:2, 119-141
- ^ Michael M. Gunter, "Turgut Özal and the Kurdish question", in Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden (eds, 2010), Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue, Taylor & Francis, 9 Aug 2010 pp94-5
- ^ Today's Zaman, 6 November 2012, Secret witness reveals identity, shady ties between PKK and Ergenekon Archived 2013-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Nezan, Kendal (5 July 1998). "Turkey's pivotal role in the international drug trade". Le Monde diplomatique.
- ^ The 1993 report of Turkey's Parliamentary Investigation Commission referred to information that Hezbollah had a camp in the Batman region where they received political and military training and assistance from the security forces. - Akkoç v. Turkey, Application Nos. 22947/93, 22948/93, Judgement of 10 October 2000 Archived May 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, European Court of Human Rights judgment concerning Akkoç v. Turkey case, section II, C (in English)