Turkish daily owner arrested in Ergenekon probe

PanARMENIAN.Net - Law enforcement officials detained four people within the scope of the ongoing Ergenekon probe, including Mehmet Sabuncu, the owner of daily Aydınlık, while around 100 supporters of the Workers’ Party (İP) gathered before Sabuncu’s flat to protest the raid, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

“They are terribly afraid of us because we are defending the country. We are going to call everything to account. We do not fear repression. Aydınlık has no single owner, it has thousands. Aydınlık’s owner is the people,” the daily’s editor-in-chief, Serhan Bolluk, said in a press statement he issued while security forces were still searching Sabuncu’s flat.

Istanbul police arrived at Sabuncu’s house in the district of İçerenköy and conducted a search for six hours. Security officials also conducted a separate search in the offices of the İP in the Çorlu province of the northwestern province of Tekirdağ.

İP leader Doğu Perinçek is on trial under arrest in the Ergenekon case.

Retired Maj. Zafer Şen, retired military judge Bahadır Berk and one more suspect were also taken under custody by the police as part of the Ergenekon trials.