Admiral vows ‘flawless’ revenge for Sledgehammer in recording

[TheCommander]

Rear Adm. Cem Aziz Çakmak was among several military officers arrested last year as part of an investigation into the Sledgehammer coup plan. (Photo: Cihan)

Rear Adm. Cem Aziz Çakmak, who is currently among dozens of military officers jailed for their suspected involvement in a coup plot dubbed “Sledgehammer,” allegedly said in a recording posted online on Monday that “there will be revenge for the Sledgehammer” probe within two years and that it will hurt many, including children.

“The picture will be upside down within two years. Look, I am saying this. You would say my pasha had said this. These guys [behind the probe] will flee. Many of them will flee the country. And revenge will be very different. Many people will be hurt. I mean, many will be hurt in revenge,” a man, alleged to be Çakmak, is heard saying in a recording posted on video sharing website dailymotion.com on Monday.

The rear admiral says in the recording that the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, used to order his soldiers to “seize the whole city when a rebellion erupted, including children,” and implied that his group's revenge would be similar. “Our revenge will come at a time when they feel most self-confident and it will be flawless. … Atatürk used to order that everyone in a city be seized, not even leaving children, in the event of a rebellion. The man saw [the future]. Even the children … this is how it happens,” he continues.

“I believe one thing. Do you know when a person is weakest? When he feels most self-confident. … We also had much self-confidence and we were weak because of it. They are now making the same mistake,” Çakmak says.

“There will be many cases of settling of accounts. Two years is long, it will be perhaps within a year. Once we are released from here, there will be a very serious payoff for those outside. It will be very serious. Do you know what our first plan is? They will be starved. Everything will start after this. I mean we are not idle,” he continues. In the recording, Çakmak refers to the coup plot suspects as “freedom fighters” and says, “They will not give up hope.”

“Of course, this will be a process. I do not know how much more we will suffer. But I do not think that it will take too long. We’ll how many people they will release, if they do. I mean even if they don’t, this will not take too long. That’s what the news we received suggests. These are credible sources. This will be accounted for,” the person speaking in the recording is heard saying.

Arguing that it is impossible for “them” to evade “the trial of history,” the rear admiral claims that those behind the Sledgehammer trial will not sleep comfortably in their graves. “Even the soil will reject their bodies,” he says. He adds that when he says “they” he means the judges, prosecutors and police officers who are now investigating the suspected plot.

Çakmak was arrested last year as part of an investigation into the Sledgehammer coup plan, a subversive plot allegedly prepared by a clique inside the military that included plans to crash jets and bomb large mosques during busy prayer hours to undermine the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) with the hope of eventually overthrowing it. The rear admiral is remembered for having threatened judges at the İstanbul 10th High Criminal Court, which is currently hearing the Sledgehammer case, last summer when he said he wonders “who will be trapped under the debris of the collapsing Sledgehammer case” and that “the judges will not be able to escape being tried for treason.”

Threats directed at judges

The person in the recording, thought to be Çakmak, also speaks about remarks he made about members of the İstanbul 10th High Criminal Court. Complaining about a lack of “courageous” Turkish officers in the military, in particular in the land forces, he proudly says not a single naval officer referred the presiding judge as “esteemed judge.”

“We all spoke politically [during court sessions.] I begged them [officers] not to yield to them [judges] in their testimonies. I do not say esteemed judge and such in court. I am shouting ‘members of the 10th High Criminal Court.’ I am saying neither ‘esteemed judge’ nor ‘esteemed members of the court.’ I had said, looking at the panel of judges, that they will be tried for treason,” he adds.

Çakmak’s alleged remarks in the recording come on the heels of the emergence of a similar recording last week in which another Sledgehammer suspect threatened the government with civil war as soon as suspects imprisoned on charges of planning a coup d’état are released from prison.

In the recording, also posted on dailymotion.com on Friday, a person alleged to be Rear Adm. Fatih Ilgar harshly criticizes the prime minister and senior military officers and says suspects who have been imprisoned on charges of plotting to overthrow the government are set to be released from prison in around two months thanks to a bill that will be voted on in Parliament soon.

“There is a bill on the agenda. It will be passed in one or two months’ time. Information coming to me suggests this. They will release us from prison thanks to that bill. This country will restore itself either through an economic crisis or civil war. One of these two options will knock on our door one day. If it’s a war [that knocks on our door] then we will make it a [civil] war. It [the struggle against the government] will not end here [in prison]. We have plans for after we are set free,” the person is heard as saying.

According to the Sledgehammer allegations, members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had a systematic plan to create chaos in society by bombing mosques and attacking popular locations with the desired result being to increase pressure on the AK Party government for a perceived failure to provide security for its citizens. The attacks were intended to eventually lead to a military coup. The plan was drawn up in 2003 and discussed during a seminar at the General Staff’s Selimiye Barracks in March that year.

Admiral vows

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[LegionnairE]

Problem is, our navy is too damn strong. We dominate all eastern mediterrean, agean and black seas. That's why navy is under constant pressure. There is no convicted crime done by our navy officers but just because they are under custody they will never get promoted. Their lifes are ruined along with their careers.

I am shocked how people sit idly and do nothing against this grave injustice. Everybody knows courts are under political influence but so the media.

 

[what]

The whole Sledgehammer thing is probably made up and used to infiltrate Military and other institutions with Islamists.

I've read a report about how some of the evidence which is allegadly 10 years old is written in Calibri which was introduced by Microsoft in 2003. But no fucks given, there's no democracy in Turkey anymore. We're heading towards Saudi Arabia/Iran slowly.

 

[Pakistanisage]

Problem is, our navy is too damn strong. We dominate all eastern mediterrean, agean and black seas. That's why navy is under constant pressure. There is no convicted crime done by our navy officers but just because they are under custody they will never get promoted. Their lifes are ruined along with their careers.

I am shocked how people sit idly and do nothing against this grave injustice. Everybody knows courts are under political influence but so the media.

What an irony, your too damn strong navy did nothing against Isreali navy when they massacred 9 of our Turkish brothers in cold blood.

 

[PteX]

What an irony, your too damn strong navy did nothing against Isreali navy when the massacred 9 of our Turkish brothers in cold blood.

If Atatürk were alive, Milli Görüs which is the founder of the so called "innocent" IHH, wouldn't exist and the whole incident could never have happened.

He would mind Turkey's own business and would most certainly not allow Turkish NGOs and Turkish nationals support the Islamo-Fascist terror organization Hamas.

He was a General, a great soldier and he loved his country. He would have put Turks first and not Arabs which betrayed the Ottoman empire..

 

[Pakistanisage]

If Atatürk were alive, Milli Görüs who is the founder of the so called "innocent" IHH, wouldn't exist and the whole incident could never have happened.

He would mind Turkey's own business and would most certainly not allow Turkish NGOs and Turkish nationals support the Islamo-Fascist terror organization Hamas.

He was a General, a great soldier and he loved his country. He would have put Turks first and not Arabs which betrayed the Ottoman empire..

If Ataturk was alive and saw the crimes of the ZIONIST state, he would have had his boot so far up Israel's _ _ _, it would be hurtful for you.

 

[PteX]

If Ataturk was alive and saw the crimes of the ZIONIST state, he would have had his boot so far up Israel's _ _ _, it would be hurtful for you.

That just shows that you know nothing about Ataturk, go google.

 

[what]

When no amount of evidence will shake the faith: Etyen Mahçupyan edition | Balyoz Davas

Here's something concerning fake evidence in this whole made up story: evidence dated back in 2002 is written in the MS font Calibri, which was introduced with Office 2006 in, yes you guessed it, 2006. But no one is even paying attention to it, this is just a show-trial. No evidence, staged evidence, put everyone else who is not in favor of Erdogan somehow in context with the staged storry and put them in jail to. Now those people will partially come out again but due to our judicary system they will be in jail for a few months even if they're innocent because our system is freaking slow. Journalists that have been put to jail will probably never ever write about Erdogan again because they're scared of going back to jail.

 

[TrMhMt]

What an irony, your too damn strong navy did nothing against Isreali navy when they massacred 9 of our Turkish brothers in cold blood.

You must ask this question to Tayyip. Our army is under order of Tayyip. If you have a chicken(tayyip) Pm who has big mouth, there is nothing to do. by the way...

 

[Zulkarneyn]

If Ataturk was alive and saw the crimes of the ZIONIST state, he would have had his boot so far up Israel's _ _ _, it would be hurtful for you.

Some Turkish members in this forum is totally oblvious to what is happening in Israel, maybe its that they don't give a damn or maybe it is because they dislike the arabs.

However, the Sledgehammer operation is proven by very solid documents and reordings. And it does not surprise me one bit that the army would go to such extremes to continue their status-quo repression of Muslims in Turkey. But these corrupt generals are behind bars as they should be. The thing that surprises me though is the members who say democracy is worse off than it was before. We didn't even have democracy before the military intervened in Refah period even though there was absoluetely no basis for a "post-modern" coup. It is proven that many newspaper articles were based on manufactured lies. The same thing which happened in Menderes' time. If anything, today Turkish democracy is at its best. Every indication you want to analyse points towards that. So those who defend the corrupt generals, suck it we don't have dictatorship any longer.

 

[what]

I think we're closer to a dictatorship then ever before. The country is allready ruled as authoritarian as it can. The Media is silenced and the opposition almost too. We have more journalists in prison than freaking Iran and I'm not talking about those who are in jail because they're PKK-loving morons.

 

[TheCommander]

I cannot stand those people who are uneducated, ultra-nationalist and try to manipulate people. But, even not capable of doing these. We have a proverb that "Biliyorsan konus ibret alsinlar, bilmiyorsan sus adam sansinlar" "If you know something tell people so they can get lesson from it, but if you do not know anything then shut up and people think you are a man"

None of the journalists in the prison because of their job. They are in the prison because they are members of illegal organization that may be “armed” or “unarmed". “Especially in the last two years, most of the journalists have been jailed because of ‘membership in a terrorist organization said Turkish Justice Minister.

Tuncay Ozkan, one of the journalists in jail because of membership of Ergenekon, applied European human rights court that his arrest is not legal and filled a plaintiff's complaint. European court decided based on the evidence that the arrests in ERGENEKON trail is LEGAL and REJECTED Tuncay Ozkan.

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Recently European human rights court also decided that the arrest of coup suspect Retired Gen. Cetin Dogan who is the leader of coup is LEGAL

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