Many people in Turkey have come under the suspicion of being members of the illegal Ergenekon network. Arrests have taken place in waves, and several suspects are standing trial.
The following list includes not only people who have been detained or indicted in connection with the investigations, or for whom a warrant has been issued, but also people whose homes have been searched without having been charged, and people who have been acquitted. Thus, not all names listed are of suspects in the legal sense of the term, although all are or have been at some time under suspicion of involvement.
Name | Age (Date of Birth- Date of Death) |
Occupation | Arrest duration (Date of Arrest- Date of Release) |
Status | Sources |
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Oktay Yıldırım | Ret. Petty Officer | 2007-06-13- |
4 years, 271 daysArrested and standing trial |
[1][2] | |
Mehmet Demirtaş | Landlord of the Ümraniye slum | 2007-06-13- |
4 years, 271 daysArrested and standing trial |
[1][3] | |
Ali Yiğit | Nephew of the Landlord of the Ümraniye slum |
2007-06-13- |
4 years, 271 daysArrested and standing trial |
[1][4] | |
Muzaffer Tekin | 61 1950-10-28- |
Ret. Captain | 2007-07-20- |
4 years, 234 daysArrested and standing trial |
[5][6][7] |
Mahmut Öztürk | Ret. Noncommissioned Officer | 2007-07-20]]- 2008-11-18 |
1 year, 121 daysAcquitted | [5][8][9][10] | |
Gazi Güder | Ret. Captain | 2007-07-20]]- 2008-11-18 |
1 year, 121 daysAcquitted | [11][12][13] | |
Ayşe Asuman Özdemir | Journalist | 2007-11-06]]- 2008-07-18 |
0 years, 255 daysStanding trial | [6][14][15][16] | |
Halil Behiç Gürcihan | Owner of the Açık İstihbarat website | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][17] | ||
İsmail Yıldız | President of SESAR | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][18] | ||
Kemal Şahin | Standing trial | [19] | |||
Mehmet Murat Yücel | Standing trial | [20] | |||
Feridun Refik Nuhoğlu | Standing trial | [21] | |||
Haydar Mahmud Özgür | Standing trial | [22] | |||
Ergün Poyraz | Author | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][23] | ||
Bekir Öztürk | President of the Kuvayı Milliye Derneği | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][24] | ||
Fuat Ermiş | Standing trial | [25] | |||
Tuğrul Derme | Standing trial | [26] | |||
Tuğrul Derme | Standing trial | [27] | |||
Aydın Yüksek | Ret. Police Officer | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][28] | ||
Muzaffer Şenocak | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][29] | |||
Fikret Emek | Ret. Major | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][30] | ||
Zekeriya Öztürk | Ret. Captain | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][31] | ||
Rafet Arslan | Standing trial | [32] | |||
Zeki Yurdakul Çağman | Standing trial | [33] | |||
Tuncay Hacıbektaşoğlu | Standing trial | [34] | |||
Saipir Debzlelvidze | Standing trial | [35] | |||
İsmail Eksik | Standing trial | [36] | |||
Veli Küçük | Ret. Brigadier General | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][37] | ||
Sevgi Erenerol | Spokesperson of the Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate |
Arrested and standing trial |
[6][38] | ||
Muammer Karabulut | Chairman of the Ayasofya Association | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][39] | ||
Vedat Yenerer | Televizyoncu | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][40] | ||
Güler Kömürcü | Standing trial | [41] | |||
Emin Caner Yiğit | Standing trial | [42] | |||
Ümit Oğuztan | Standing trial | [43] | |||
Sami Hoştan | Susurluk scandal convict | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][44] | ||
Sedat Peker | Standing trial | [45] | |||
Semih Tufan Gülaltay | Standing trial | [46] | |||
Ali Yasak | Standing trial | [47] | |||
Vatan Bölükbaşı | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][48] | |||
Orhan Tunç | Author and ret. lecturer of Balıkesir University |
2008-02-26- |
4 years, 13 daysArrested and standing trial |
[6][49][50] | |
Habib Ümit Sayın | Associate Professor at Istanbul University |
2008-02-26- |
4 years, 13 daysArrested and standing trial |
[6][49][51] | |
Emin Gürses | Associate professor at Sakarya University |
2008-02-26- |
4 years, 13 daysArrested and standing trial |
[6][49][52] | |
Kemal Yalçın Alemdaroğlu | Standing trial | [53] | |||
Serhan Bolluk | General Manager of Aydınlık journal | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][54] | ||
Doğu Perinçek | 69 1942-06-17- |
President of the Workers' Party | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][55][56] | |
Ferdi İlsever | General Manager of the Ulusal TV Channel | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][57] | ||
Mehmet Adnan Akfırat | Journalist | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][58] | ||
Hikmet Çiçek | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][59] | |||
Hayati Özcan | Arrested and standing trial |
[6][60] | |||
İbrahim Benli | Standing trial | [61] | |||
Mahir Çayan Güngör | Standing trial | [62] | |||
Ali Kutlu | |||||
Nusret Senem | Secretary General of the Workers' Party | ||||
Mete Yalazangil | |||||
Muhammet Yüce | Ret. sergeant | ||||
Kahraman Şahin | |||||
Erol Ölmez | |||||
Erkut Ersoy | |||||
Fikri Karadağ | Ret. colonel | ||||
Kemal Kerinçsiz | attorney-at-law | ||||
Hüseyin Görüm | President of the Kuvay-i Milliye Organisation | ||||
Oğuz Alpaslan Abdülkadir | |||||
Hüseyin Gazi Oğuz | President of the Branch of Kuvay-i Milliye Society | ||||
Abdullah Arapoğlu | |||||
Hikmet Çiçek | |||||
Ümit Oğuzta | |||||
Hayrettin Ertekin | jeweller | 2008-02-26- |
4 years, 13 daysIn custody | [49] | |
Vedat Yenerer | journalist | 2008-02-26- |
4 years, 13 daysIn custody | [49] | |
Abdulmuttalip Tongar | |||||
Selim Akkurt | |||||
Adnan Akfırat | journalist, member of the Workers' Party | ||||
Hayati Özcan | Representative of the Ulusal TV Channel in Izmir | ||||
Rasim Görüm | |||||
Murat Çağlar | |||||
Barbaros Hayrettin Altıntaş | |||||
Sinan Aygün | President of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce | 2008-07-01- |
3 years, 253 daysReleased | [63] | |
Atilla Uğur | Ret. major | ||||
Birol Başaran | President of the Kadıköy branch of the Atatürkçü Düşünce Society | ||||
Kemal Aydın | |||||
İbrahim Özcan | |||||
Durmuş Ali Özoğlu | |||||
Osman Gürbüz | |||||
Hurşit Tolon | Ret. full general | 2008-07-01- |
3 years, 253 daysIn custody | [63] | |
Şener Eruygur | Ret. full general | 2008-07-01- |
3 years, 253 daysconditionally Released after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Forensic expert Şebnem Korur Fincancı suspected foul play. |
[64][65][66] | |
Mustafa Özbek | chairman of the Turkish Metal Workers’ Trade Union | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Ünal İnanç | journalist | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Erhan Göksel | researcher | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Savaş Avcı | leader of a Turkmen association | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Feridun Hümüzlü | Assistant Professor of Dentistry at the University of Sivas | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Ali Tatar | lecturer at the University of Sivas | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Oğuz Demirkaya | head of the Internet Journalists Association | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Mehmet Bakır | head of the Internet Journalists Association | 2009-01-22- |
3 years, 48 daysIn custody | [67] | |
Yalçın Küçük | researcher and writer | 2009-01-07]]- 2009-01-22 |
0 years, 15 daysReleased | [67] | |
Engin Aydın | vice-chairman of the Independent Republic Party | 2009-01-07]]- 2009-01-22 |
0 years, 15 daysReleased | [67] | |
Ahmet Akgül | editor of the magazine National Solution | 2008-07-23- |
3 years, 231 daysIn custody | [63] | |
Mevlüt Sungur | a writer for the magazine National Solution | 2008-07-23- |
3 years, 231 daysIn custody | [63] | |
Yusuf Buldu | National Channel representative | 2008-07-23- |
3 years, 231 daysIn custody | [63] | |
Uçkun Geray | Professor at Istanbul University | 2008-07-23- |
3 years, 231 daysIn custody | [63] | |
Tuncay Özkan | journalist, former owner of Kanal Türk TV station, leader of secularist "Biz Kaç Kişiyiz?" movement |
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Duygu Dikmenoğlu | television anchor | ||||
Emcet Olcaytu | legal adviser | ||||
Tuncay Mollaveyisoğlu | Kanal Turk employee | ||||
Evrim Baykara | NGO member | ||||
Adnan Bulut | television executive | ||||
Gürbüz Çapan | former mayor of İstanbul's Esenyurt district, shareholder of Cumhuriyet |
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Tanju Güvendiren | former member of the Military Supreme Court of Appeals, served in the now defunct State Security Courts (DGM) issued the order to arrest former Police Intelligence Department Chief Hanefi Avcı, who was investigating the Susurluk scandal |
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Mesut Özcan | cardiologist | ||||
Mahir Akkar | civil servant | ||||
Hasan Kılıçarslan | Ret. policeman | ||||
Adil Serdar Saçan | Police chief | 2008-11-23- |
3 years, 108 days[68] | ||
Şafak Akbaş | forensicist | ||||
Yıldıray Başaran | forensicist | ||||
Mustafa Tavşan | forensicist | [69][70][71] | |||
Merdan Yanardağ | reporter | [72] | |||
Anet Sahakyan | secretary | [72] | |||
Şener Öztürk | chauffeur | [72] | |||
Fuat Karip | IT technician | [72] | |||
Sabih Kanadoğlu | honorary chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals | Not Arrested | |||
Bedrettin Dalan | former mayor of Istanbul | At large in the US will be Arrested upon return. |
[73] | ||
Barış Dalan | Son of Bedrettin Dalan | Arrested | [73] | ||
İlhami Ümit Handan | Assistant of Bedrettin Dalan | Arrested | [73] | ||
İbrahim Şahin | former chief of the police force's special forces unit | Arrested | [74] | ||
Erdal Şahin | Nephew of İbrahim Şahin | Arrested | [74] | ||
Kemal Gürüz | former chair of the Council of Higher Education | [75] | |||
Kemal Yavuz | Ret. general | Arrested | |||
Tuncer Kılınç | Ret. general, former Secretary General of the National Security Council |
Arrested | |||
Erdal Şenel | Ret. major general, former legal counsel to the Turkish General Staff |
Arrested | |||
İlyas Çınar | Ret. colonel | Arrested | |||
Ergin Erkılınçoğlu | Special Operations chief of the Izmir police | Not Arrested | |||
Mehmet Akyazı | engineer at Cumhuriyet University | Not Arrested | |||
Bekir Çelik | head of the Sivas chapter of the Grey Wolves | ||||
Oğuz Bulut | head of the Sivas chapter of the Grey Wolves | ||||
Mustafa Dönmez | colonel | Arrested | [76] | ||
Hüseyin Vural Ural | Ret. senior staff captain | Arrested | |||
Engin Erkilinçoğlu | police chief | Arrested | |||
Hüdayi Ünlüer | businessman | Arrested | |||
Mustafa Levent Göktaş | Ret. captain from the Special Forces Command | Arrested | [77] | ||
Mehmet Koral | Arrested | [74] | |||
Özkan Bektaş | Arrested | [74] | |||
Kuddusi Okkır | Businessman | 2007-06-20]]- 2008-07-01 |
1 year, 11 daysReleased without being charged, died because of cancer, without being able to be cured while under arrestment | [78][79][80] |