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Turkish Coup Addict Generals Behind New Action Plan: Gülen Movement
17 June 2009
An action plan put together by a colonel in the military allegedly with the knowledge of a special unit inside the General Staff to defame the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Gülen movement was part of an overall plan of military intervention, the history of the unit of the colonel who planned the report suggests. The colonel, Dursun Çiçek, serves as the head of the Information Support Group, which is the Operations Command of the General Staff. Çiçek was appointed to this post in 2004. This appointment came after Turkey's National Security Council (MGK) transferred all its units concerned with “psychological warfare” to the General Staff, as the former institution was being de-militarized under Turkey's EU harmonization process. These changes included the abolition of the administration of the Public Relations Administration (TIB), the Intelligence Gathering Administration and the Overall Defense Administration. However, the functions of these departments, which have usually been used by the military to exert influence over politics through the MGK, were later integrated into the functions of the Information Support Group under the General Staff. The TIB turned into a department of psychological warfare while the Intelligence Gathering Administration started functioning as an agency that would categorize and blacklist people on the basis of their religious or political affiliations. The Political Psychology Center, set up initially in 1993 under the Prime Ministry, was later annexed in 1995 to the TIB under the MGK. The role of this center was also transferred to the Information Support Group. The Special Warfare Department under the General Staff was first established in 1952 and called the Mobilization Inspection Council under the National Intelligence Agency (MIT). It was annexed to the MGK by the Sept. 12 generals. In 1984, it was given a more civilian look. During this process, retired generals such as Dogan Beyazit, Teoman Koman, Oguz Kalelioglu, Tahir Tamer Kumkale, Ismet Akyol and Ahmet Oyman served at the TIB. These individuals all have interesting aspects. Gen. Dogan Beyazit, who was the head of the TIB after the 1980 coup, later served as the chief of the General Staff Operations Command. The TIB concentrated on propaganda and organizations outside the country until the '90s but switched its focus to domestic affairs after 1990. Although it still was part of the MGK, it always had interlaced relationships with special elements established inside the military, such as the Special Forces Command -- an extension of the Special Warfare Department and the Operations Command. The Western Study Group, which organized the Feb. 29 1997 unarmed military intervention, relied on the TIB for intelligence. Today, some of the TIB's functions are carried out by the Information Support Group, which is part of the General Staff Operations Command and which answers to the deputy chief of general staff. This unit prepares the military's intervention and war plans. The military's National Security Policy Document, which sets out the basic duties of the military, states that the military is endowed with the task of protecting Turkey against four elements of domestic threat, one of which is religious fundamentalism. The “action plan” that was made public last week was prepared under the scope of that document.
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