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Shocking revelations in Turkey about a plot to assassinate Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. A plan which would be carried out as an anniversary hit by fanatics on the anniversary of the Fall of the City and appears to be connected to the Ergenekon case and the "Sledgehammer" plan against Greece. One arrest has already been made and two are wanted as prime suspects………
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According to the perpetrators' plan, the assassination of the Patriarch would take place on 29 May on the day of the 560th anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople. The Ankara prosecutor's office has already started a preliminary investigation into the case, while the supreme criminal court of Istanbul decided to merge the case of the attempted assassination of the Patriarch with the ongoing trial of the Ergenekon case, as legal and factual reasons connect the two cases.
Part of the Ergenekon case for the overthrow of Erdogan is the "Sledgehammer" plan by a group of officers of the Turkish Armed Forces with the aim of causing a crisis with Greece and for Ankara to benefit from it. The plan called for the downing of a Greek aircraft and an invasion from the Aegean and the Evros.
Also, the plan provided for attacks on mosques and murders of Christians with the aim of creating a disturbance in order to provoke the intervention of the army which would now be called in to restore ... order. Also part of the plan were the murders of Armenian-born journalist Hrad Dink, of the Catholic priest Andreas Santoros in Pontus and two Christians in Malatea. These four murders took place and it seems that in one case the murder of Patriarch Bartholomew was avoided.
The thread of the case began to unravel when the prosecutor's office in Caesarea received a letter which alleged that there was a plan to assassinate the Ecumenical Patriarch. In the letter it was stated that the assassination of the Patriarch would take place on 29 May and that a group of would-be assassins had already started work in Istanbul.
As soon as the police received the file called "plan to kill Bartholomew" they started searching for suspicious people and when it was found that they went to Istanbul they immediately started the operation to locate them.
Serdar A was arrested. who denied the accusations and stated that he "went to Istanbul to work next to his relatives. I do not know who Patriarch Bartholomew is nor do I know where he lives. I've only seen him on TV and I have no plan to kill him.". Police are looking for two more people.
Between the two is Ismet Retzber, a carpenter by trade, who is accused of having undertaken on behalf of Gyurbuz Čapan, suspected as a member of the leadership of the Ergenekon conspiracy, to assassinate Patriarch Bartholomew as part of a general plan to create social unrest.
Source : defencenet.gr
Diligence : NewsRoom Mykonos Ticker