Turkish military false flag operations

Turkish military false flag operations include operations done by the Turkish army but responsibility put on other parties, such as Kurdish insurgents during the past decades. There have been numerous massacres and other crimes perpetrated by the Turkish state but blamed on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), especially in Northern Kurdistan (south-eastern Turkey). Till to this day some cases are still blamed on the PKK. Civilians targeted, numerous villages were bombed or set on fire by Turkish soldiers and civilians forced to flee.

Cases & Incidents

2014

Pretext to go to war in Syria

On the 27th of March 2014, an audiotape was leaked onto YouTube of Turkish officials plotting to stage various military false-flag operations which would then be used as a pretext to go war or intervene in Syria. In the recording the MİT Undersecretary Hakan Fidan says to other Turkish officials that “If needed, I would dispatch four men to Syria. [Then] I would have them fire eight mortar shells at the Turkish side and create an excuse for war.” Following the release of the tape Turkey blocked YouTube, while Twitter was already blocked for a similar incident.

Also mentioned was a possible attack on the Tomb of Suleyman Shah. On the 26th of March 2014, a day before the leak, the then Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan referring to any attacks on the tomb, said Turkey “will of course do whatever needs to be done”, while a week before ISIL had supposedly threatened to attack. In 2015 Turkey launched an operation to relocate the tomb dubbed "Operation Shah Euphrates", although since the statement in 2014 ISIL had surrounded and controlled areas around the tomb for quite some time, the operation chose to cross through Kobane which had newly been liberated from ISIL by Syrian Kurds.

2009

Istanbul molotov bus attack

In November 2009, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a bus and set ablaze in Istanbul. 17-year old Serap Eser badly burnt a month later died in hospital while in a coma. Later the PKK was blamed and still to this day Turkish media & state officials states the attackers were PKK, but turned out that the perpetrators were in fact MIT agents. Former Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin later stated “the people who sabotaged the bus, throwing Molotov cocktails, were members of MİT.”

2005

Şemdinli affair

In November 2005 a defector from the PKK, being used as an informant by Turkish security forces, along with two officers of the local gendarmerie bombed a local bookstore in Şemdinli/Şemzînan, Hakkari Province, (current day Turkey), targeting PKK sympathizers. High ranking military officers were linked to the incident, among others were General Yaşar Büyükanıt (later the chief of the general staff) who served in the region in the late 1990s. The prosecutors indictment pointed out that the bombing “was part of a series of similar attacks intended to provoke the security forces into a clampdown on the restive Kurdish region that would then unleash European criticism and jeopardize Turkey’s hopes of joining the EU.” This incident is popularly referred to as the "Şemdinli affair", which was followed by other events, and consequently, five different illegal clandestine organizations were detected that have ties with some military members and groups.

1993

Vartinis massacre - October 03, 1993

On the 3 October 1993, nine people from the same family, seven of whom were children, were killed in Vartinis (Altınova) hamlet in the Muş province of Turkey. Their house was set on fire following allegations that they had “aided and abetted an illegal terrorist organisation”.

The massacre was blamed by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Muş on guerrillas of the PKK. Subsequently the file was referred to the Diyarbakır State Security Court Chief Prosecutor who as well blamed insurgents and claimed that “the perpetrators are not known”. The case remained closed for nearly two decades.

The relatives of the victims tried to open the file in 2003 but it was rejected by the Military Prosecutor’s Office. 2013, when the file was finally taken, multiple commanders of the Turkish army were charged with ‘purposefully burning down a house and causing multiple deaths’. On a basis of ‘a lack of evidence’ they were all first acquitted.

The case was brought to the Supreme Court in 2016 and resulted in 2021 with the conviction of the Gendarmerie Commander at the time, Bülent Karaoğlu, for the burning of the village. recovered. The PKK denied that its fighters had launched an attack.

1992

Ôirnak incidents - August 18, 1992 - (Case 28)

A former Turkish Army conscript (T.T) who was interviewed by Human Rights Watch, reported that when he was attached to the 'Seventh Mechanized Infantry Brigade's Second Regiment' for six weeks in Ôirnak, on the night of August 18, 1992 "There suddenly was a big panic, and the whole base was shooting into the town. Artillery, tanks, machine guns, everything."

They were informed that the PKK was attacking them and other military positions from the mountains, however all of the bases guns were always pointing to the city. He said, "why were we only shooting at the city?", he noted that there was some light weapons fire directed from the city to the base, but nothing that warranted the "massive barrage" unleased from the Turkish military. The following day he said the bases heavy weapons "pounded the city, while two helicopters hovered overhead." and "a second battery of artillery and tanks fired at the city from the mountains.".

One Turkish military colleague which he had spoken to boasted over lunch pouring petrol over a male teenager wounded by gunfire and burning him to death. On the third day of the raid, T.T assigned to body collection, which he reported that he saw corpses that appeared to have been "summarily executed or mutilated." He said: "I saw about thirteen or fourteen children's bodies,", "and I collected three of them." Among them was a young boy, shot at close range in the groin. An infant, another was shot up against a wall.

The Turkish government claimed they were responding to an attack by a large PKK raiding party. The then Turkish Interior Minister İsmet Sezgin that "between 1,000 and 1,500 guerrillas attacked police and Jandarma headquarters and government buildings with rockets and mortar bombs." But no actual PKK guerrillas were captured or bodies of suspected guerrillas were recovered. The PKK denied that its fighters had launched an attack.

1990

Kuşkonar massacre

In 1994 the Kuşkonar and Koçağılı villages were bombed by the Turkish Air Force, with the Turkish state accusing the PKK, even though the PKK did not have any fighter jets in its armory, and the then-PM of Turkey Tansu Çiller falsely claimed that “the military aircraft which bombed the villages did not belong to the state.” The victims in the Kuşkonar massacre took the Turkish state to the European Court of Human Rights (see Benzer and Others v. Turkey). The court decided in favor of the applicant, reiterating in §184 that an indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians and their villages could not be acceptable in a democratic society or reconcilable with any of the grounds regulating the use of force set out in Article §2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the customary rules of international humanitarian law or any of the international treaties regulating the use of force in armed conflicts.

The official policy of the Turkish state against the Kurds has included denial of identity, mass murder, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of numerous Kurdish political and civic activists.

By admission of a Turkish police officer, Ayhan Çarkın, the Turkish state ordered massacres and human rights violations during the trial on the Susurluk scandal.

Several of the witnesses which confessed such human rights violations by the Turkish state were not charged or sentenced for their crimes.

1974

Burning of a mosque in Cyprus

In 1974 a retired Turkish General and Secretary-General of the National Security Council (serving 1988 to 1990) Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu confessed to ordering the burning of a mosque as part of a false flag operation in Cyprus. In a 2010 interview he admitted that the blame was put on the Greek Cypriots to instigate public resistance and support leading to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Yirmibeşoğlu is also suspected of attempted assassination on the 8th president of Turkey, Turgut Özal.

1955

Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki

In September 1955, a day before the Constantinople riots news spreads that the Greeks attacked the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, mobs were trucked into the city then began attacking the Greek community, six years later after a Turkish military coup in 1960, a court found that this was ordered by the at the time prime minister of Turkey, Adnan Menderes.

See also

• Deep state in Turkey
• False flag

References

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