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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2014 19:59:06 GMT
Ayhan Çarkın was a policeman. He was a member of its special forces unit, and says with the sanction of state officials he personally killed 1000 people at the height of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. The leader of the Special Operations Department.
The year after the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was established (1984), he signed up to the police force. He received training in special warfare from Korkut Eken. He was deployed in Diyarbakır under chief Şahin, who described Çarkın as his best man. He gained a reputation for conducting lightning-fast raids—350 in all—though some have suggested the possibility that some of his victims might have been innocent. He was active in southeast Turkey from 1986 to 1990.
Çarkın was involved in the events that led to the scandal. Specifically, he was part of the elite Police Special Operation Teams department that was responsible for assassinating businessmen suspected of financially supporting the PKK. One of these was allegedly the so-called "casino king", Ömer Lütfü Topal, assassinated in July 1996. Çarkın's associates included Ayhan Akça, Oğuz Yorulmaz, Ercan Ersoy, and the notorious Abdullah Çatlı. Three (excluding Çatlı) were detained, but released on the orders of the chief of police, Mehmet Ağar, and transferred to become bodyguards for another key figure in the scandal, Sedat Bucak.
Bucak was a True Path Party deputy as well as the leader of a 20-30,000-strong armed clan. Significantly, he was the only survivor of the November 1996 Susurluk car crash (in which Çatlı died), thanks to his bodyguards. Since the assassinations were extrajudicial (the public did not know that the state had sanctioned them), Çarkın was tried again. He was sentenced to four years in jail; he served twenty months. Çarkın denies having taken part in the Topal assassination. He says he has alibis; he was leading a unit of five in Kadıköy at the moment the assassination took place.
After the scandal, the Çiller-Erbakan administration was replaced by the Mesut Yılmaz administration. Çarkın alleges that deputies in the Yılmaz administration offered him a passport to enable him to flee, but he refused since he believed he was innocent.
Çarkın became disillusioned and spoke out. He alleges that the state, using the clandestine Ergenekon network, colluded with militant groups such as the PKK, Dev-Sol, and Hezbollah, with the goal of profiting from the war.
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2014 19:59:58 GMT
9 September 2011:
A prosecutor has reopened the murder case of Ömer Lütfi Topal, a Kurdish businessman who was assassinated by several gunmen in front of his house in 1996, following revelations from a former special operations officer.
Ayhan Çarkın, a former member of the National Police Department's Special Operations Unit, who in July said he would be willing to speak out on unsolved murder cases in which illegal groupings within the security forces were involved, recently gave details about Topal's murder. Çarkın also named seven other people, also former special operations unit, as having information about the murder of the businessman.
Çarkın, who was arrested for his role in the 1994 murder of lawyer Yusuf Ekinci on June 2 of this year, recently admitted his involvement in several assassinations with seven other members of the special operations unit in the '90s. The seven men have also been arrested since Çarkın's testimony.
Statements of Çarkın and the other seven suspects caused prosecutors to take up the murder of Topal, whose case had been shelved for some time.
Prosecutor Hakan Yüksel from the Ankara Prosecutor's Office, which is currently investigating the unsolved murders of the '90s, earlier this week requested the Topal murder case files from the Beyoğlu 1st High Criminal Court, the court that conducted the initial trial.
Following Çarkın's testimony Yüksel has also called İbrahim Şahin, a former deputy chairman of the National Police Department's Special Operations Unit, who was convicted in a trial relating to the Susurluk affair in 1996, which revealed illegitimate alliances between the criminal world, the police and the political establishment after a car crash in the township of Susurluk. Şahin is also a key suspect in an investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine network charged with plotting to overthrow the government.
Çarkın claims that Şahin ordered the murder of Topal and arranged the release of the officers who carried out the armed attack that led to his death.
Çarkın has asserted that Şahin is a member of the group that gave the orders for these murders and ensured that those members of the special forces were released after the incident.
Topal came to İstanbul in 1957 and held various jobs, from being a laborer to a drug dealer. After getting caught in Belgium, he was imprisoned for three years in the country and three years in the US. He started to operate the Caddebostan Grand Club in 1990. With his rise to the top of the casino sector and high earnings, he also became known in sectors such as energy, tourism and insurance. Topal operated 20 casinos in Turkey and six casinos in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC), Poland, Romania, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, and many government leaders and artists owe him money in these countries.
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2014 20:04:31 GMT
Ergenekon is the name given to an alleged clandestine, secularist ultra-nationalist organization in Turkey with possible ties to members of the country's military and security forces. The would-be group, named after Ergenekon, a mythical place located in the inaccessible valleys of the Altay Mountains, is accused of terrorism in Turkey.
Ergenekon is by some believed to be part of the "deep state". The existence of the "deep state" was affirmed in Turkish opinion after the Susurluk scandal in 1996.[5] Alleged members have been indicted on charges of plotting to foment unrest, among other things by assassinating intellectuals, politicians, judges, military staff, and religious leaders, with the ultimate goal of toppling the incumbent government.
Ergenekon's modus operandi has been compared to Operation Gladio's Turkish branch, the Counter-Guerrilla. By April 2011, over 500 people had been taken into custody and nearly 300 formally charged with membership of what prosecutors described as "the Ergenekon terrorist organization", which they claimed had been responsible for virtually every act of political violence—and controlled every militant group—in Turkey over the last 30 years.
An organization named "Ergenekon" has been talked about since the Susurluk scandal, which exposed a similar gang. However, it is said that Ergenekon has undergone serious changes since then. The first person to publicly talk about the organization was retired naval officer Erol Mütercimler, who spoke of such an organization in 1997.
Mütercimler said he heard of the original organization's existence from retired general Memduh Ünlütürk, who was involved in the anti-communist Ziverbey interrogations following the 1971 coup. Major general Ünlütürk told Mütercimler that Ergenekon was founded with the support of the CIA and the Pentagon. Mütercimler was detained during the Ergenekon investigation for questioning before being released.
Mütercimler and others, however, draw a distinction between the Ergenekon of today and the original one, which they equate with the Counter-Guerrilla; Operation Gladio's Turkish branch. Today's Ergenekon is said to be a "splinter" off the old one. The person whose testimony contributed most to the indictment, Tuncay Güney, described Ergenekon as a junta related to the Turkish Resistance Organization operating in North Cyprus; the TMT was established by founding members of the Counter-Guerrilla. Former North Cyprus President Rauf Denktaş denied any connection of the TMT to Ergenekon.
Another position is that while some of the suspects may be guilty of something, there is no organization to which they are all party, and that the only thing they have in common is opposition to the AKP.
Although the investigation was officially launched in 2007, the existence of the organization was known beforehand. The files on Ergenekon were discovered after a spy called Tuncay Güney was detained in March 2001 for petty fraud. Some say the crime was a ploy to set the investigation in motion. A police search of his house turned up the six sacks of evidence on which the indictment is based.
One month later, a columnist on good terms with the government, Fehmi Koru, was the first to break the news, under his usual pen name, Taha Kıvanç. His article was based on a key Ergenekon report dated October 29, 1999, and titled "Ergenekon: Analysis, Structuring, Management, and Development Project".
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2014 20:13:38 GMT
BFP Exposé: CIA-Obama-George Soros Coordinated Misinformation Campaign Targets Russia SIBEL EDMONDS | OCTOBER 18, 2013
On October 15, 2013, Democracy Now! dedicated an entire hour to a segment titled Another U.S. Whistleblower Behind Bars? Investor Jailed After Exposing Corrupt Azerbaijani Oil Deal. The exclusive show presented the case of multimillionaire American businessman Rick Bourke, who supposedly blew the whistle on a fraudulent scheme by international criminals to gain control of the oil riches of Azerbaijan. Since May 2013 Rick Bourke has been held in a federal prison for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for alleged knowledge of the bribery that allegedly took place in 1998. Other investors in the corrupt Azerbaijan scheme included former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and major institutions, including Columbia University and AIG. However, so far, no one has been jailed other than Bourke. The case as narrated by Democracy Now and a few other US mainstream outlets reads like one of John le Carré’s famous spy and conspiracy thrillers turned into a Hollywood thriller:
The involvement of high-ranking former U.S. and British officials from the CIA and MI6 in Bourke’s court case High-profile politicians such as Senator George Mitchell and infamous mega corporations like AIG Key witnesses during the trial who were allegedly valued intelligence assets working for the U.S. government. The nastily competing powers- USA and Russia, over Azerbaijan hydrocarbon; battles over oil and pipeline Shady characters such as Viktor Kozeny, known as the Pirate of Prague, who lives in the Bahamas, and a U.S. citizen named Tom Farrell, who lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he runs a bar and acts like a double agent
I can go on and list feature after feature of the case that entails numerous spy-novel characters, turns and twists, yet in the end leave the reader scratching his head confusedly due to not being able to make sense of this case and what it is really about. But I will not. If you are one of those confused readers don’t be hard on yourself, the story is designed to confuse and not make any sense. You are not alone. If you have the time and inclination (which I hope you do) read the transcript of this case, as presented by Democracy Now, and do so a couple of times. Make sure you highlight the points emphasized repeatedly during the show. And please check out the participants in the show, including the hosts and the outlet. Once you do that, join me to compare notes. Are you ready?
My Connection to Azerbaijan & My State Secrets Privilege Case First, let me begin by explaining why I found this case and its presentation enormously important and noteworthy. Those of you familiar with my case know that my job and infamous State Secrets Privilege case with the FBI involved operations and files that dealt with Turkey, Azerbaijan, and several other nations in Central Asia and the Caucasus between 1996 and 2001. I was the only FBI linguist qualified to translate documents (Audio and Written) pertaining to Turkic languages such as Turkish and Azeri. These particular operations and files were the main reason for the repeated gag orders, retroactive classification and the invocation of State Secrets Privilege in my case. Thus, I am one of very few people who are intimately aware of and knowledgeable about what was going on in Azerbaijan in the years 1996 till 2001.
I know for sure who the operators were behind the scenes, not only in the United States but also in Turkey and Azerbaijan, engaged in bribery, corruption, sabotage, blackmail and so much more. Whether through the Azerbaijani or Turkish diplomatic communities the FBI had amassed thousands of pages of transcripts and reports pertaining to these activities.
You may assume that due to the sources targeted the individual operatives would be all foreigners-Turkish, Azerbaijani, etc. You would be wrong. Let me give you a few examples:
US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce: During those target years the organization was under operatives such as Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, James Baker, Richard Armitage, Brent Scowcroft, and Former Speaker of the House Robert Livingston.
The American Turkish Council (ATC): Again, you are looking at operatives from the same circle: Brent Scowcroft, Richard Armitage, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Robert Livingston, Tom DeLay, Stephen Solarz, and more.
I am half Azerbaijani-from my father’s side. I was the only FBI linguist with the needed clearance and linguistic qualifications to review these files and help FBI agents reopen some of the investigations that were shut down by the White House through the State Department.
The Story Spun Based on what I know first-hand about the operations taking place in Azerbaijan between 1996 and 2001, and based on numerous official documents and reports (Including investigative reports by Turkish authorities), and many-dozens of articles published in the last fifteen years, I can tell you with one hundred percent certainty that the operations targeting Former President Heydar Aliyev and his son Ilham Aliyev, including the 1995 assassination attempt, hooking the son via solely Turkish-Owned Casinos in Azerbaijan, blackmailing and bribing both Aliyevs, narcotics and money laundering and much more, were all planned and executed by the CIA and the State Department here in the United States via their proxy in the region, the Republic of Turkey.
The story and the way it was presented may be extremely confusing, vague and convoluted. However, one thing was made sure of: repeatedly use Russia as the culprit behind the bribery and corruption and intelligence sabotage involved in the case. Just pay attention to how Armstrong repeats the phrase Russian oligarchy. Take notes on how the official operations via government entities and banks are limited to Russia.
Interestingly, the reality and the facts point toward Western entities as culprits. Since 1995, since the assassination attempt on Heydar Aliyev that was planned in the United States and carried out by Abdullah Catli – a Turkish paramilitary operative on the CIA payroll since the 1980s – the major players in Azerbaijan aiming for its oil and pipeline potentials have been US power-players and their mercenary army called the CIA.
I know that, totally by design, Americans have had very little history and context knowledge related to Azerbaijan and other energy source-rich similar Former Soviet States. Rather than going into complex details, I will present a few documented facts pertaining to US-led operations in Azerbaijan, including assassination, bribery, corruption, money laundering and beyond.
During the first two years after Heydar Aliyev’s election in 1993, the United States tried several times unsuccessfully to recruit Aliyev into its camp for its pipeline-stan project and objectives. Do you remember the infamous BCCI Scandal? Well, the main culprit in the scandal, Roger Tamar, serving his CIA handlers and US oil interest backers, was involved in one of these unsuccessful attempts by the United States to bring Azerbaijan into its sphere of control:
In the early 1990s, after the Soviet Union loosened its grip on Central Asia, Tamraz was the originator of the 1,100-mile (1,800 km) Baku-Ceyhan (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline) considered as “one of the great engineering endeavors”, an oil pipeline project, to move 1 million barrels per day (160,000 m3/d) of Caspian Sea oil to the Mediterranean Sea and thus to world markets. Tamraz managed to obtain support for the proposed pipeline from Turkmen President Niyazov, Azerbaijan’s President Heydar Aliyev, and Turkey’s Prime Minister, Tansu Çiller, and Turkey’s Botas Company. Tamraz’s companies negotiated and signed the original pipeline right-of-way transit agreement with the Government of Turkey.
Let’s put it this way, things were not going smoothly with Heydar Aliyev, who still carried some loyalty to Russia. When the business and bribery angle failed, the United States and its proxy, Turkey, went to Plan B: assassinate Heydar Aliyev and help install a new guy who would be a willing partner. Thus, came the assassination attempt in 1995:
On 13 March 1995, an armed insurrection aimed at bringing Aliyev down was staged by the special unit of the Interior Troops (“OMON”) under the leadership of Colonel Rovshan Javadov. Four days later, on 17 March 1995, the units of Azerbaijani Armed Forces surrounded the insurgents in their camp and assaulted it, killing Javadov. Later, the Turkish parliamentary report on the 1996 Susurluk scandal revealed some details of the involvement of the Turkish government—led by Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and the Turkish intelligence—in this coup attempt. … Let’s add a bit more detail to this Turkish-led assassination attempt. The Turkish man who went to Azerbaijan via Turkey to lead the assassination operation was Abdullah Catli : Çatlı was seen in the company of Stefano Delle Chiaie, an Italian neofascist who worked for Gladio, a secret NATO stay-behind paramilitary organization, while “touring Latin America, and on a visit to Miami in September 1982″. He then went to France, where, under the alias of Hasan Kurtoglu … He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and in 1988 he was handed over to Switzerland, where he was also wanted on charges of drug dealing. However, he escaped in March 1990 with the assistance of mysterious accomplices. … Right after this mysterious escape, facilitated by a NATO helicopter, this man who was on Interpol and several other international law enforcements’ Most Wanted List, somehow, again, very mysteriously, ended up in England, was immediately given a residency permit, and lived there for a couple of years. Then, he mysteriously came to the United States, and more mysteriously received US residency in a matter of weeks, and settled in Chicago. In 1995, for Aliyev’s assassination operation, he left Chicago for Turkey, and after a two-day stay in Turkey, he entered Azerbaijan.
With unsuccessful recruitment efforts and an unsuccessful assassination attempt which turned into a fiasco further exposing Gladio; the United States went to Plan C: target Aliyev’s son, Ilham Aliyev, who was well-known for his weaknesses such as gambling, alcohol and prostitutes of all ages.
In late 1995 Turkish mafia operators in the Gladio network began opening casinos in Azerbaijan. Interestingly the Turkish owners of these casinos began offering shares to Aliyev’s son, Ilham. In less than two years, the US-Turkish operatives had Ilham Aliyev sucked in: $6 Million in gambling debt in addition to other black-mail material (including taped escapades). By 1998-1999 Father Aliyev shut down the casinos, although, by then, it was already too late: the father and son had been hooked and brought into the Western camp.
Let me outline the connections between US Intelligence and Turkish mafia casino owners in Azerbaijan:
Almost all Casinos in Azerbaijan were owned and run by a famous Turkish mafia man named Omer Lutfu Topal: Topal was a Turkish businessman, who was deeply involved in the Susurluk scandal. He had convictions for drug smuggling, and was dubbed the “casino king” for the gambling ventures that made his later fortune, which amounted to around $1bn at the time of his assassination.
According to Belgian newspapers, he was arrested on June 20, 1978 in Antwerp province of Belgium while carrying 6 kilos of heroin. A fake passport was found on him on the name of Sadık Sami Onar, issued by the Gaziantep Police. Besides, he was accused of drug transfer to the USA over Belgium. He was imprisoned in Belgium between June 14, 1978 and July 23, 1981. Then, he was extradited to the USA in order to serve a sentence passed on him for heroin trafficking. He was prosecuted in New York and sentenced to five years in prison. … It has already been established that Topal was an active member of US-NATO Gladio operations, and the heroin transfer via Belgium (Hello! NATO) to the US was one of his official assignments. In fact, Topal did not serve a day in jail, despite claims from the US Justice Department.
So yes, these were the Gladio-Mafia operators that began taking over Azerbaijan in late 1995. By 1997-1998, in Azerbaijan, both Aliyevs were in our CIA-NATO-US Oil and MIC camp. By 1997-1998 the Russians were mostly out: all money laundering, heroin labs and transfer, blackmail-sabotage and bribery schemes were conducted by us, the United States, either directly, or via proxies such as Turkey. Please be my guest and check all documented cases and reports.
Now, back to the story scripted and narrated by Democracy Now! Do you see a single reference to any of these entities and operatives established as the ones in charge of Azerbaijan? No. Turkish banks? Turkish Mafia? No. Turkish Casinos? No. US-Western bribery ongoing and in large sums? No. Cyprus banks where we pay Aliyev outside his country’s borders (Yes, that’s where we pay bribery to many of these state heads-Northern Cyprus. You want detail? Be my guest and repeat all these classification and gag orders.)? No.
But what do we find: Russia, Russian mafia, Russian government officials, Russian Intelligence, Russian Banks, Russian Oligarch, and even Putin. How interesting is that?
And finally, not trying to show off or anything, I consider myself, to a certain extent, an expert on whistleblowers and whistleblowing. Drawn from being one for 12-years, having the only whistleblowers-only organization, having known hundreds of government whistleblowers mainly from intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in addition to years of research and writing about them … Well, I am some sort of an expert, if you may. With that, let me tell you something:
This convicted crook multi-millionaire, Rick Bourke, is anything but a whistleblower. This entire staged saga, with all its participants, down to the mainstream media operators showcasing it, is nothing but a massive setup geared towards some dirty objectives pursued by the Intelligence community, and of course, the real business moguls. If you really want to know what this story is about you will have to wait. Wait until you hear some news about the latest warming relationship between Russia-Azerbaijan. Or wait until you hear about some extradition being issued for some Russian intelligence or businessman figure by the U.S. government. Or until you see the next blows thrown from the United States towards Russia with intentions of getting even with Putin on the latest … Or…Meanwhile, consider yourself to a large degree wizened by seeing the CIA-Mega Business interest misinformation operation via outlets marketed as independent and alternative!
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2014 20:19:46 GMT
Ergenekon trials are a high-profile trials that took place in Turkey, 275 people including military top brass, journalists and opposition lawmakers, alleged members of Ergenekon secularist clandestine organization, were accused of plotting against the Islamic government. The trials resulted in lengthy prison sentences for the majority of the accused. Since Istanbul Heavy Penal Court 13 accepted the 2.455-page strong indictment against 86 defendants in the first case against alleged members of the clandestine organization Ergenekon on 28 July 2008 another 14 indictments have been prepared in this context until February 2011. Until the fourth indictment the number of defendants had increased to 531 and more than 8,000 pages of indictments had been written.
On 5 August 2013 verdicts were announced. General Veli Küçük, Capt. Muzaffer Tekin and Council of State shooter Alparslan Arslan received consecutive life sentences, while İlker Başbuğ, Tuncay Özkan, Dursun Çiçek, Kemal Kerinçsiz, Doğu Perinçek, Fuat Selvi, Hasan Ataman Yıldırım, Hurşit Tolon, Nusret Taşdeler, Hasan Iğsız and Şener Eruygur were sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment. Many others received lengthy sentences, including Arif Doğan (47 years), Fikret Emek (41 years) and Oktay Yıldırım (33 years). 21 of the 275 defendants were acquitted.
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2014 19:06:26 GMT
Operation Cage Action Plan is an alleged coup plan by elements of the Turkish military (specifically, within the Naval Forces Command), which became public in 2009. The plan forms part of the Poyrazköy case of the Ergenekon trials, as the munitions found at Poyrazköy in 2009 are alleged to have been resources belonging to the same group. The indictment listed retired Admiral Ahmet Feyyaz Öğütçü along with two other admirals as the lead organisers.
Prosecutors allege that one of the contributors to the plan is the West Study Group (BÇG) - a group allegedly formed as part of the 1997 "post-modern" coup. According to an Istanbul Police report, the plan was masterminded by İbrahim Şahin and was devised by Ergenekon, and has links with the Zirve Publishing House massacre. Yeni Şafak claimed in 2010 that according to documents retrieved by police, Şener Eruygur had attended Cage Plan meetings.
The plan first came to light when prosecutors were told anonymously of the Rahmi M. Koç Museum finding explosives in the bottom of an exhibited submarine in December 2008. The plan itself was found on a CD seized in the office of retired Major Levent Bektaş. The document was published by Mehmet Baransu in the Taraf newspaper on 19 November 2009. An English translation of it exists. The plan allegedly calls for political terrorism and assassinations to be enacted against various groups of Eastern Orthodox, Armenians, Kurds, Jews and Alevis. The plan apparently originates from secret societies within the Turkish military.
Other documents allegedly relating to the Cage Plan were found at Gölcük Naval Command in 2010. It has been suggested that the plan had already begun to be put into effect when it was exposed: in mid-2009 colored stickers had appeared (and just as suddenly, disappeared) on the doors of hundreds of non-Muslim households in Kurtuluş, an incident that remains unexplained.
Mıgırdiç Margosyan linked the Cage Plan with previous conspiracies, including the provocation of the 1955 Istanbul riots.
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2014 19:09:42 GMT
Did Kurd Rebels Kill Olof Palme?
A Kurdish rebel commander says his guerrillas assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986 in retaliation for Sweden's extradition of Kurdish rebels, a Turkish newspaper reported Tuesday.
The allegation was the latest in a string of reported claims by Semdin Sakik, the second-in-charge of a Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, since his abduction earlier this month by Turkish troops in northern Iraq.
The Istanbul daily Sabah reported that the party's leader Abdullah Ocalan, ordered Palme's killing after Sweden decided to extradite eight rebels in the Workers' Party, known as the PKK. Ocalan was also angered that Sweden granted his wife asylum after she defected from the PKK, it said.
The group rejected the claim Tuesday, however, and spoke of a Turkish plot to discredit the rebel organization, the German-based pro-Kurdish news agency DEM said.
"Such dirty accusations directed at the PKK for years have proven to be untrue," DEM quoted a rebel spokesman in Sweden.
Palme was killed while walking home from a movie theater with his wife in downtown Stockholm. Christer Pettersson was convicted of the killing, but the verdict was overturned by a higher court on grounds of insufficient evidence.
Sakik reportedly said Palme's murderer escaped to France after the attack. Turkish authorities are investigating his claims, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit told reporters Tuesday.
Sakik's alleged testimony was not the first time the PKK has been implicated in the Palme killing. Sweden had incurred the wrath of Kurdish militants in the early 1980s when its government branded the PKK a "terrorist organization."
Prosecutor Jan Danielsson, who leads Sweden's investigation in the Palme killing, told the Swedish paper Aftonbladet that authorities would wait for a report by Swedish diplomat Katarina Berggren, who was briefed by Turkish authorities Tuesday.
"There is a strong indication that the Turkish side is trying to discredit the PKK," the newspaper quoted Danielsson as saying.
Several other theories have emerged surrounding the Palme murder.
In 1996, a South African police official testifying on apartheid-era crimes implicated agents of the previous regime.
Sakik commanded PKK operations inside Turkey and is accused of having masterminded a fatal attack on 33 soldiers in 1993.
Since his abduction, Sakik has also reportedly claimed that several Turkish journalists, businessmen, politicians and human rights activists had links to the PKK. The accused have denied the claims.
Nearly 37,000 people have been killed in the Turkish-Kurdish war since 1984, when the PKK launched its armed campaign for autonomy in the country's southeast.
-------------------- Şemdin Sakık, nicknamed Parmaksiz Zeki for having lost a finger while firing a rocket, is a former commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)'s military forces. He is best known for ordering the May 24, 1993 PKK ambush. He has been imprisoned since his capture by Turkish forces in 1998, and is now a key witness in the Ergenekon trials.
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