DHKC statement-90

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REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S
LIBERATION FRONT

Press Bureau
Date: July 8, 1999         Declaration: 90

WE PUNISHED THE CONTRAGUERILLA MEMBER TURAN UNAL
WHO COMMITTED THE CRIMES OF 
DISAPPEARANCES, EXECUTIONS, TORTURE, AND DRUG TRADE

Turan UNAL was sentenced to imprisonment in the Cankiri Prison because he
had committed armed robbery. Although he committed armed robbery with his
accomplices who are the members of the contraguerilla, they did not
acknowledge him as a member when he was caught. Due to the conflict between
him and his accomplices, Turan UNAL wanted  to blackmail them by creating
the image that he could establish relations with us. On the other hand, he
protected himself  by giving limited information, and wanted to provide a
safe position against a possible attempt to silence him by his accomplices.
Being aware of his above mentioned plans, Turan UNAL was taken into custody
and interrogated by us. Turan UNAL admitted all his offences, and confessed
to the existence of the contraguerilla organisation, and gave the names of
some of the people who took part in this organisation and of those people
who were disappeared by them, and told about the executions, tortures, drug
smuggling, and so on. On March 1995, he established his first contacts with
the contraguerilla when he passed the examinations of the Police Academy
and got acquainted with Mumtaz Karaduman, the Chief of  Amasya Police.
Mumtaz Karaduman introduced him to Burhan Tansu, the Chief of the Personnel
Branch of Ankara Police Headquarters.   Burhan Tansu, in turn, introduced
him to the alleged businessman Tarýk ATES and his partner Turan. These
persons appear to deal with import-export and customs, but in fact are
involved in all  kinds of contraguerilla actions and drug smuggling. Even
though Turan UNAL passed the examinations of the Police Academy, he then
started his military service.  He addressed his request to the chief of the
Amasya Police.  The Chief of the Amasya Police, himself, ordered that the
necessary procedures for him to be able to perform his military service are
carried out.
On November 21, 1995,  he started his military service at the 1st Hunting
Training Centre in Temeltepe, Sivas.  The commander of the squadron,
Captain Salih DOGAN assembled Turan UNAL and 29 other persons at a separate
place and told them that they would be trained separately. They were
isolated from the other troops. They were trained there in various subjects
such as different weapons, shooting, weapon maintenance, armed and unarmed
defence,  fighting techniques, team operations, operating different
technical devices, strategy and psychology of struggle against terror,
psychology of human society and criminals. Turan UNAL became a member of
JITEM (Gendarme Intelligence Institution). He took part in many murders and
torture actions. After the end of military service, he continued with
contraguerilla actions.

THE 03 TEAMS OF THE CONTRAGUERILLA: 
They abduct and execute people. "The persons at the center are: Colonel
Erol BULUN, the commander of the Security Service Unit of the City Gendarme
Headquarters in Yenimahalle, Ankara, Colonel IBRAHIM, the commander of
Archival Information Department, Colonel SONER, the commander of
Intelligence and Feasibility Department. The teams do not have an official
position, rank, or status. Each member has an official record as  if he
were an ordinary private, corporal, or sergeant. The duty starts with
military service. The persons are trained. After the end of the military
service, the active duty continues at least three years.  Whoever prefers
may join MIT (National Intelligence Institution), Special Operations, or
the Army after an examination. Or else they carry on a plain-clothed life
under normal conditions, they are kept under control, and given some jobs
from time to time. In general, a team is composed of three persons. Taking
into account the test results  and personal information, those persons who
are close to one another and who are thought to get along well are grouped
into three on average. According to the activities and behaviour in the
group, some are given the position of the Chief of the Team. In addition to
that, special care is given to turning  the teams into cells. They give
importance to widening the field of operation, independent work,
information, and infiltration. Because an 03 group is like a wild card,
sudden and last minute duties emerge. The  Police, MIT, and other military
institutions are used to provide information, material and personnel. The
team receives orders from high-ranked chiefs of police services and
branches. All the authorities and identities of the official forces--like 
Police, MIT, military commanders--are used..."

"THE METHODS USED IN ANKARA
The personnel of the team generally stays at Gendarme City Headquarters. If
necessary, for instance when someone is to be followed closely, listened
to, or kept under continuous observation, the team may be located in a
suitable house, flat, or any other accommodation in Ankara, according to
the conditions of the case. In general, they stay at hotels with false
names and fake identities. Some of those hotels are Aldina Hotel on Bulten
Road, Tunali, and big hotels such as Hilton, Sheraton, Grand Ankara, and
Dedeman. The names and codes are determined just before the job. No
information is provided to us earlier than that." (...)
"The recorded telephone numbers taken from Turkcell and Telsim are given to
the team if necessary. The communication with the centre is provided via
either this way or pre-determined, frequently used addresses or telephone 
numbers.  Or else, vehicle wirelesses and hand wirelesses are used...." The
most effective official identity--for instance ranked policeman, MIT
member, or soldier-- in the area we are present is determined in advance
and given to us..."

HE CONTINUED WITH THE CONTRAGUERILLA ACTIONS AFTER MILITARY SERVICE
He established contact with the contraguerilla through references from
Burhan TANSU, Tarýk ATES, and Zekeriya URGANCIOGLU from the Ankara Police
Headquarters. He was introduced to these persons when he passed  the
examinations of the Police Academy. In line with the orders of these
persons, he was sent to Ankara DAL (Deep Investigation Laboratory, a center
of torture) in order to contact the DHKP-C team. There he met Osman AK,
Ismet ..., Can  (or Cem) ..., and Tansel .... First, on the orders of Osman
AK and Istanbul Branch Directorate, he carried on contraguerilla activities
in the Diphacýkoy village of Amasya. He planned to found a society for this
village and its surroundings with the aims of attracting the revolutionary
democratic potential, drawing the attention of DHKP-C and TKP-ML (Turkey's
Communist Party- Marxist Leninist) to this society, and consequently
infiltrating the rural organisations of DHKP-C and TKP-ML. He founded the
society. Moreover, he established a public library in the same village, but
as the villagers thought he might be a member of the police  he assigned
another person to take his position and withdrew from the village. However,
he stayed in the region to provide for exchange of information.
Nevertheless, as they had little success, the society was dissolved. Turan
UNAL was withdrawn to Ankara. During his stay in Ankara, he frequently met
the previously mentioned persons. He followed, seized, and tortured people.
They carried on these actions with their 3-person-team. From time to time,
they attended the interrogations in Antalya, Istanbul and Sivas. They
tortured many people at the JITEM  Center in Yenimahalle.They took those 
who they took into  custody without records  to the Eskisehir, Golbasi,
Kizilcahamam and Kirikkale roads and tried to execute them.

The members of the 3-person 03 TEAM:
Turan UNAL
Sedat KABASAKAL (currently, he continues to commit crimes in Izmir.)
Ertan Cetin (he continues to commit crimes in Ankara)

In this organisation, there are nearly 60 teams, each with 3 people. They
are classified according to codes like 03, 05, 07, 09, 11... Each class has
a different field of specialisation. Only the team coded 03 is given the
whole education. 03 is the most professional unit. Turan UNAL was a member
of this team as well. They carry out the disappearances and secret murders
where the perpetrators remain unknown. Other than contraguerilla actions
against revolutionaries they took part in the drug trade.
They transported cocaine from Italy to Turkey in vans and Mercedes cars.
This was done via the firm named SALEM KORAY which is based in Yenimahalle,
Ankara and owned by the contraguerilla. The heroin of the HASET
construction firm was carried outside the country in the same way. He
confessed that they killed Ali KURTOGLU in Cesme and 4-5 more persons
because of a conflict over the drug trade.

THE TRAINING CENTRES
Corlu:  Human psychology and camouflage.
Sivas, Maltepe: Interrogation, following people, recruiting collaborators. 
Ankara, Yenimahalle, JITEM: Weapon, murdering without leaving any evidence,
technical works, close combat.

The training of Turan UNAL: At Ankara JITEM and Corlu, he took weapons
training, murder without evidence, murder without weapons, interrogation,
following people, recruiting people for spying, torture, technical work,
psychology, close combat, Aikido, swimming, professional driving, etc. and
lectures from foreign experts who came from foreign countries.

PLACES OF INTERROGATION
"Depending on the conditions of the work, we interrogate at Bayrak
Garrison, if ordinary then at Yenimahalle JITEM or Special Team buildings
at Golbasi..." The necessary interrogations and post-interrogation actions
are performed in the fields on the Eskisehir road or in the building sites
of Police.

DISAPPEARANCES
After the Gazi Uprising in 1995, JITEM, MIT, and the Police in Istanbul and
Ankara drew up a list of persons to be disappeared. The list was then given
to the 03 teams of which Turan UNAL was a member. They made a preliminary
study of the names in the list. "Who is effective in the organisation and
to what extent? If a given person is lost, will there be an increase in
demoralisation and desertion from the organisation and revolutionism in the
unit or region?" All these points were analysed, the targets were made
certain, and from early 1996 on people were sent out. He stated that there
are disappearances that are still not known about by the public and
moreover that they disappeared some collaborators just because they knew
something. "If there is someone to be disappeared at DAL, we go, take him,
and disappear him after the interrogation."

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF METIN ANDAC, NESLIHAN USLU, MEHMET ALI MANDAL AND
HASAN AKDOGAN IN CESME ON MARCH 31, 1998.

Turan UNAL claimed that he was not present during this action, but that he
knew who carried out their disappearances and how this was done. His
statement that he did not participate is not true. He only wanted to save
himself.  In our opinion, Turan UNAL was involved in the disappearance of
our comrades and knew all the details. Our 4 comrades, having been
kidnapped from Cesme, ALACATI, were interrogated in the buildings of
contraguerilla which are placed in the military field in Foca.  Then, they
were kept 3-4 days in the building of the contraguerilla at Hatay
Uckuyular. At the end of April, our comrades, who had been tortured
heavily, whose arms had been broken and who had been put to sleep with
drugs, were put in a small fishing boat on the shore of Izmir Seferihisar
and the boat was sunk. The reasons why they chose Seferihisar are that it
is a lonely place with a deep sea and the mountains are almost
perpendicular to the sea.
Celebration of the Disappearance: 
After they disappeared our 4 comrades, they celebrated this at a centre of
amusement called FLY-IN which is built on a 40 000 square metre field in
Cesme.  This is a place constantly visited by members of the contraguerilla
 for amusement.  It is also said to have a branch in Istanbul.

THOSE WHO COMMITTED THE CRIMES OF KIDNAPPING AND DISAPPEARANCES
-Turan UNAL: punished
-"Bunyamin: Responsible for the team.  He is from Bursa and  was authorised
in Bursa in September  1990.  He is the security advisor of Nergiz Holding
in Bursa.  He is 1.80 m tall, lightly tanned, with straight brown hair, 80
kg in weight, aged 25-26, athletic."
-"Alpaslan: He introduces himself as Alp.  His nickname is Arap. Sometimes
he wears graded eyeglasses.  He is from Antalya. His uncle was once the
mayor of Kemer and now lives in Kuzdere village of Kemer. His mother's
house is in Lara.   Darkly tanned, 1.80 m tall, with a big head,
thick-lipped like a Negro, speaking fast, curly-haired, dark-eyed, 80 kg,
athletic, very fond of playing football. Frequently, he goes to the
football field of Tecavuzcu Coskun in Antalya Konyaaltý."
-"Ibrahim: His nickname is Ayý Ibrahim, he is from Isparta. He is said to
be protected by the president. He is 1.75 m tall,  lightly tanned,
straight-haired, brown- eyed, big-nosed, corner-faced, and 75. kg.

THE PLACES WHERE THEY BURY THE MISSING PEOPLE
He told us "Some of them were buried in the military field of Bayrak
Garrison some were buried in the foundations of the state buildings -
mostly police buildings - which were built by the Hasemoglu Construction
firm, and some others were destroyed in the acid tanks of the state or
state-related private factories where oil by-products which react with
acids are processed," and also that they call such places "Holes".

NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME MEMBERS OF THE CONTRAGUERILLA
 -"HAKAN YAGIZ: He is 1.90 m tall, 90 kg, dark-tanned, round-faced, wide
fore-headed, hazel-eyed, broken-nosed, athletic, speaks Turkish with an
accent like a foreigner.
 -EKREM AKDEMIR: He is 1.80 m tall, 85-90 kg, dark-tanned, round-faced,
brown-eyed, black shining-haired. He has a muscled body because he
exercises with weights. He is from Kayseri.
 -ALI CEYLAN: He is 1.80 m tall, 80 kg, lightly tanned, brown-eyed,
light-haired, long-faced, his hands always move while talking.
 -ERDOGAN KAYA:  He is 1.85 m tall, 80 kg, brown-haired, green-eyed,
fat-faced, slightly narrows his left eye while talking, athletic.
 -HUSEYIN EREN: He is  tall, 80 kg, dark-tanned, black-haired, brown-eyed,
long-faced, thick-eyebrowed.
 -ERDAL: He is 1.90 m tall, 85 kg, brown, wavy-haired, hazel-eyed,
fat-faced, as he always smiles.
 -IBRAHIM GOKCE: He is 1.80 m tall, 80 kg, lightly tanned, brown-haired,
hazel or brown-eyed, athletic, thick-lipped, and from Isparta.
 -TARIK ATES: He deals with organising the youth in the Ulku Ocaklari
(Clubs of Ideal), arranging marches with slogans for the funerals of
soldiers and police, arranging high-rank contraguerilla meetings in his
restaurant -Ates Meat Restaurant-, establishing foreign drug connections,
and buying weapons."

THE DRUG, WEAPON AND CUSTOMS EXITS AND SOME METHODS AND PLACES USED
 "Weapons, munitions, tools and requisites to be used in the contraguerilla
and state-related special operations should not be registered. Therefore,
foreign-made technical devices, weapons, and munitions are smuggled into
the country. Such expenses are in general afforded by the income of the
drug transfer from Turkey to foreign countries."

THE SOURCE OF DRUGS
 "The landlords of the big tribes in the south eastern Anatolia are used in
providing drugs in return for some privileges. The drugs obtained from big
drug smugglers after denunciations are not destroyed. Instead, they are
sent to Europe and other foreign countries and distributed. The customs
points of Turkey where drug smuggling is dense and the methods used: Edirne
Kapikule, Izmir Cesme Harbour,  Gaziantep Kilis Oncupinar region-in
connection with Syria and Israel-, and Mersin Harbour- for weapons entries
from Israel.
The methods of smuggling drugs and weapons at the customs:
1. Arranging the shifts of that day at the customs.
2. Learning the departure date of the vehicle which has been denounced
to smuggle drugs out of the country (in relation with the
contraguerilla) and sending out the already prepared drugs that day. For
instance, the denounced vehicle which is loaded with drugs is followed
by a car till the customs. That car is in turn  followed by other drug
loaded vehicles which, in fact, belong to the persons in connection with
the contraguerilla. In the mean time, the vehicle at the front is denounced
to the media institutions, so as to draw the attention to it and to provide
the safe passage of their vehicles through the customs. In other words,
while everyone is interested with the first one, the others pass easily.
Weapons and munitions entries through the customs are carried out under the
control of the contraguerilla, with the help of import-export firms and
private foreign cars.
For instance, the Cesme harbour, Kapikule, Mersin Harbour- which is used
for the entries of weapons from Israel and USA- are the most commonly used
customs points, and the weapons smuggled are Jerico, Uzi, M-16, E-DAL. The
names of the contraguerilla members are, Osman AK, Tansel, Ali, Ayvaz, and
someone I saw during my visits but whose name I cannot remember. He is 1.70
m tall, with a big head, wearing glasses, wavy-haired, and wide-faced. He
does not always wear glasses. He has a moderate attitude in his personal
relations. Here, I could get the necessary information from the personnel,
examine the files, get information about the persons who have been
interrogated and about their attitude and behaviour during the
interrogation. In general, the capabilities here are used by MIT, JITEM,
DAL by learning the methods and producing high-level theories to be used
during other operations when necessary. However, because MIT, DAL, and
JITEM were exposed after the unknown perpetrator murders, disappearances,
and conflicting works which emerged later, and hence the public attention
was directed on them, such jobs are assigned to contraguerilla. Thus, a
professional style of work was formed. Such conflicts with the police were
experienced  till 1997. Despite serious warnings, when a policeman named
Erdal DOGAN continued to do things which would have exposed  us, he was
executed and was left as if he had committed suicide... In the later
period, the contraguerilla provided the majority of personnel and took
control.  They received the privileges of warning and control over the
others..."

THE OFFENCES OF THE CONTRAGUERILLA MEMBER TURAN UNAL
1- On January 30, 1996, in Sivas, murdering Mete Nezihi ALTINAY, Imran
AYHAN, Mustafa AKTAS, Muharrem OZDEMIR, Tevfik DURDEMIR, Ali Duran EROGLU,
and Comert OZEN.
2- On March 31, 1998, in Cesme Izmir, kidnapping Neslihan USLU, Metin
ANDAC,  Mehmet Ali MANDAL, and Hasan AYDOGAN, torturing, putting them in a
boat after breaking their arms and putting them to sleep with drugs, then
sinking the boat with bombs and thereby murdering them.
3- Waiting to murder 2 revolutionaries in Marmaris, who were preparing for
an action.
4- Kidnapping, torturing, and murdering revolutionaries in Istanbul TEM
(Struggle Against Terror Branch of the Police Headquarters), Ankara DAL,
Bayrak Garrison, Yenimahalle JITEM, Izmir Foca and Uckuyular.
5- Founding a society and public library in Diphacýkoy, Amasya in April
1998 and training people to infiltrate DHKP-C and TKP-ML rural
organisations.
6-Following, taking into custody, and torturing the mothers of the
disappeared and prisoners in July 1996 during the HABITAT period.
7-Actions aimed at recruiting collaborators in the Aegean region and the
Taurus mountains.
8- Following revolutionary students, carrying out provocations, and trying
to recruit them as collaborators during the  turban demonstrations at
Ankara, Hacettepe, Beytepe, and the Faculty of Political Sciences campuses
and the Istanbul University Faculty of Arts.
9- From November 1995 till November 1998, personally taking part in
torturing and disappearing revolutionaries when he was the Chief of the
Team 03, and also smuggling drugs and weapons for the contraguerilla. 
10- Kidnapping, threatening, recruiting agents, following, interrogating,
and torturing revolutionary-democratic  people.

Turan UNAL, himself, confessed that he committed the above crimes. Had
Turan UNAL surrendered to the justice of the people, voluntarily confessed
his offences against the people, and made public the contraguerilla
organisation and its members, we would have forgiven him.
His speaking sincerely to the public and revealing the public enemy
organisation with all its aspects and documents might have extenuated his
offences. We offered this to him. However, he continued to play
bilaterally, and did not accept our offer. Because of this, it has been
firmly proved that he committed the above mentioned crimes, on July 4,
1999, at 18:00 o'clock, in Cankiri Prison, he has been punished with death.

THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE WILL EITHER SURRENDER TO THE JUSTICE OF PEOPLE OR
THEIR END WILL BE LIKE THAT OF TURAN UNAL


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