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    US EMBASSY DENIES ROLE IN ERGENEKON PROBE

    Asbarez
    Feb 1st, 2010

    ANKARA (Anatolia News Agency)-A spokesperson with the United States
    Embassy in Ankara has said the U.S. had no involvement with a probe
    in Turkey over an alleged criminal network known as Ergenekon.

    The spokesperson described the allegation as "ridiculous" in a written
    statement on Monday, saying that the embassy could not comment on an
    ongoing case in a Turkish court.

    A national newspaper in Turkey reported that part of an indictment in
    the Ergenekon probe alleged a car registered with the U.S. Consulate in
    Istanbul had entered a military zone to take photographs in Istanbul's
    Poyrazkoy district, the scene of an excavation that unearthed weapons
    and explosives last April.

    The spokesperson said they had no record of a consulate vehicle being
    present at the site on April 7, 2009.

    The Ergenekon gang was brought into the limelight after police seized
    27 grenades, explosives and fuses in a shantyhouse in Istanbul on
    June 12, 2007. The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office launched an
    investigation into the weapons.

    Police conducted operations in several provinces and detained a
    number of people, including retired senior army officers as well
    as officers on active duty, journalists and businessmen for their
    alleged involvement in the network.

    The gang is accused of conspiring to overthrow the Turkish
    government by increasing instability in the country through political
    assassinations.
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