GERMAN EXPANSIONISM LEADS TO MURDER

Report 26 December 2002
Translated 29 December 2002

TURKISH WITNESS AGAINST GERMAN POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS KILLED

ANKARA (own report) The university lecturer Necmit Hablemitoglu, author of several publications on German influence in Turkey, was shot on 18th December. The victim had accused the German Secret Sevice (BND) of subversive activities and had collected evidence of co-operation between the secret service and several German, political institutes. The institutes maintain subsidiary activities in Turkey and are driving forward the "europeanisation" of the country. Hablemitgolu was to have appeared as principal prosecution witness in a case before the Turkish State Security Court, listed for December 26.

The murder is the latest high point in a series of unscrupulous attempts to bring a halt to investigations of four German foundations and their presumed partners in the German intelligence community. Previously the appointed prosecutor, who had pursued the case vigorously, was discredited by compromising private photographs and removed from the case.

For several months the German Foreign Office has tried to avert the case which is highly embarrassing to it. The Foundations (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Friedrich Naumann Foundation and Heinrich Boell Foundation) are part of the basic political organisation of expansionary German policy abroad. They are accused of subversive activities in several countries (1). The Turkish prosecutor's department seeks to prove that the foundations are operationally connected with German foreign espionage (BND).

The case in Turkey against four German political foundations, accused of "Conspiracy" and "Undermining the Turkish State", has begun with public threats by the accused. In a "declaration" hedged about by many qualifying clauses, the German Foundations gave notice (over a "Network of the politicial elite of Europe" (Echo)) of serious repercussions if the charges were not dropped. The threats from the foundations are part of a package of measures by Berlin to put massive pressure on Ankara.

MURDER

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German Secret Service, has the facilities of its own residency available in Turkey and is on the best of terms with its Turkish counterpart. Up to now it is not clear why the Turkish Secret Service was unable to prevent the murder of the principal prosecution witness against the German foundations or whether it was itself involved in the murder.

RESISTANCE TO "CLOSER UNION" (ANNAEHERUNG - also translated as
"rapprochement")

From their statement, which is now in the public domain, the Boards of the German Foundations accept by implication that German foreign policy must inevitably lead to conflicts from which conspiracy and murder cannot be excluded. It states that they pursue the "CLOSER UNION of the "guest" (sic) countries and of their social groupings into the European Union". The "rapprochement" which they propose is an hegemonical economic bloc with supranational assertions in its constitution, which aims to overthrow the sovereignty of its members. A peaceful "rapprochement" is therefore only possible when the elites of the "guest" states are ready to give up their sovereignty step by step and to hand themselves over to German-ruled "Europe". The readiness to do this is present only in parts of the Turkish state administration. In other parts, it has led to outright resistance which is embodied in the charges against the German political "foundations".

HEGEMONY THROUGH SUBVERSION AND REGIONALISATION

Since 1991 , German political institutes and cross-border associations have been active in all European states under the pretext of humanitarian, cultural or social concerns.

The investigations by the State Prosecutor were brought against the "Konrad Adenauer Foundation" (Christian Democrat), the "Friedrich Naumann Foundation" (Free Democrats), the Social Democrat "Friedrich Ebert Foundation" and the "Heinrich Boell Foundation" (Green Party and League 90). These "research institutes" of the political parties are financed with millions of German taxpayers' money. They were accused of "membership of a secret, illegal conspiracy" and with "undermining the Turkish National State". The dismissed prosecutor wished to bring evidence that the German political foundations were complicit in the activities of anti Turkish irredentists to bring in measures to subvert Turkish sovereignty under the guise of "Regionalisation".

AND NOW PHYSICAL FORCE

Similar accusations have been made against the German secret service (BND) and German political institutes in several other countries (for example in France). (see also the BND role in Yugoslavia in the 1980s and 1990s in the book Fascist Europe Rising). Up to now Berlin has succeeded in covering this up and avoided a political scandal. In spite of massive diplomatic pressure applied to Turkey by the German government, it seems now to require physical force to keep the process going.

(1) In German on www.german-foreign-policy.com see Deutsche Stiftungen "Dem aeusseren und inneren Frieden foerderlich" sowie "Generalprotest"