Primary watch: Republican State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced over the weekend that he is running for governor of North Carolina, per the Associated Press. Ben Cardin is up for re-election next year, but Politico also reports that “political insiders” expect Cardin to retire. Larry Hogan to run for Senate, per Politico, but he doesn’t seem interested. Elizabeth Warren announced Monday morning that she is seeking a third term in the Senate, saying in her launch video, “There’s a lot more we’ve got to do.”Ĭrabby about the Senate: Republicans are still trying to recruit former GOP Gov. It would also reassure the public that such conspiracies remain a thing of the past.She’s running (for Senate): Democratic Sen. There remains a lack of clarity about what the deep state was, how it operated and justice for its victims which has, in turn, lead to a general lack of public trust, not least from Turkey’s 12m-15m strong Kurdish minority.Ī rapid and thorough investigation into the Ankara bombings would do much to alleviate such anxiety and any further allusions to the involvement of the Turkish deep state. The scars from that period have not gone away though. The Kurdish insurgency had, after all, come to a medium-term halt following the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. Alleging a military-led deep state coup against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government for its Islamic sympathies, these cases saw hundreds of people accused of plotting bomb attacks and civil unrest to ease the passage for a military takeover – although the military denied any involvement in a plan to overthrow the government and convictions have since been overturned.ĭespite these trials, it is actually more likely that Turkey’s deep state apparatus was either dissolved or became inactive after the Susurluk scandal.
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The spectre of the deep state was raised again following the Ergenekon investigations from 2008 and the Balyoz trial in 2010. For many Turks this was evidence of the existence of a deep state. The question on everyone’s lips was, no doubt: “What were these people doing together?” The incident became a public scandal.
The sole survivor of the crash was none other than a Kurdish warlord from a large state-supported anti-PKK village guard. In the wreckage was found a senior police official, a former leader from the Grey Wolves ultra-nationalist paramilitary group (who was also a wanted murderer and drug trafficker) and his girlfriend, a former beauty-queen-turned-hit-woman.
What was strange about the incident was the group of people found inside the car. Three of the four passengers inside the car were killed.
Turks were given a glimpse of the inner workings of the deep state after a November 1996 car crash near the town of Susurluk. The heavy-handed response in Ankara has only fuelled speculation. No one would know who had carried out an attack or who ordered it. These squads were organised into cell-like structures and believed to be answerable to the military, which would recruit underworld figures from organised crime, the police or the security services who would launch operations in an apparently autonomous manner. Meanwhile, it was believed that the networks were deploying special squads to assassinate leading Kurds. It was able to deny involvement in some of the more violent episodes of the counter-insurgency campaign carried out against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as it fought for autonomy in the 1980s and 1990s. The secretive and clandestine nature of these deep state networks allowed the Turkish government to insist that it had no knowledge of them. However, they were also thought to have been used against the Kurdish insurgency that gripped the south-east of Turkey during the 1980s and 1990s. These networks were supposedly formed during the Cold War to fight subversive communist agitators within Turkey. The deep state (in Turkish, derin devlet) is best understood as ultra-nationalist networks that consisted of the state’s military and security apparatus as well as members of civil society. These questions have naturally led to discussions about Turkey’s so-called deep state – a term that may sound alien to western observers. Why, some people are asking, does the HDP get attacked and not the hundreds of other public rallies organised by other parties? Has there been state collusion in any of the attacks, or at best negligence on the part of the security and intelligence services? A secret network Similar sentiments have been expressed on social media and by attendees at anti-government protests. HDP leader Selahattin Demirta says the government has blood on its hands.
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