Paracultural Calendar for May 13 (extended Pope rant)

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Wherever Agca is mentioned in the context of parapolitics, Abdullah 
Catli merits a word or two. Catli was a rightwing extremist, drug 
dealer, hitman and secret agent of the Turkish state (and perhaps other 
states as well, as he was for some time travelling with Stefano delle 
Chiaie, a Gladio and Operation Condor operative). His death in a car 
accident led to the discovery of the Turkish "deep state" (which was 
regarded as a conspiracy theory before that fateful day in 1996, of 
course).

Wiki sez:

'Çatlı was responsible, along with Haluk Kırcı and several other MHP 
members, for the 9 October 1978 Bahçelievler Massacre in which seven 
university students, members of the Workers Party of Turkey (TIP), were 
murdered.

According to investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, Abdullah Çatlı 
"reportedly helped organize Agca's escape from an Istanbul military 
prison, and some have suggested Catli was even involved in the 1981 
Pope's assassination attempt". In 1998 the magazine Monde diplomatique 
alleged that Abdullah Çatlı had organized the assassination attempt "in 
exchange for the sum of 3 million German mark" for the Grey Wolves.'

And mark this:

'In 1985 in Rome, Catli declared to a judge "that he had been contacted 
by the BND, the German intelligence agency, promised him a nice sum of 
money if he implicated the Russian and Bulgarian services in the 
assassination attempt against the Pope".

Çatlı was seen in the company of Stefano Delle Chiaie, an Italian 
neofascist who worked for Gladio, a secret NATO stay-behind paramilitary 
organization, while "touring Latin America, and on a visit to Miami in 
September 1982". He then went to France, where, under the alias of Hasan 
Kurtoglu, he planned a series of attacks on Armenian interests and on 
the ASALA, including the blowing up of the Armenian monument at 
Alfortville on 3 May 1984 and the attempted murder of activist Ara 
Toranian.'

'Çatlı died in a car accident on 3 November 1996 in Susurluk, a town in 
the province of Balıkesir. With him in the car were Hüseyin Kocadağ (a 
famous police officer), Sedat Bucak (a Member of Parliament of the True 
Path Party (DYP) for Şanlıurfa province), and Gonca Us (Abdullah Çatlı's 
girlfriend). Sedat Bucak, a Kurdish village guards leader, was the sole 
person to survive the crash. His militia, funded by the Turkish state, 
was active against the PKK. The Susurluk scandal exposed the "deep 
state"; the underbelly of the government that some had dismissed as a 
paranoid conspiracy theory.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%87atl%C4%B1

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_scandal
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