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The Batı Çalışma Grubu (BÇG; (英語:West Study Group or West Working Group)) was an alleged clandestine grouping within the Turkish military said to be linked to the Ergenekon organization.〔Today's Zaman, 11 January 2009, (How the mosaic of Ergenekon terror gang was created )〕 It was allegedly set up in 1997 by General Çevik Bir (then deputy-chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey) as part of the process relating to the 1997 military memorandum (the "post-modern coup"), and active until at least May 2009. The primary activity of the group appears to have been classifying politicians, military personnel, journalists and others according to ethnic background, religious affiliation and political leanings, and to monitor the activity of those considered a potential danger to secularism in Turkey.〔Today's Zaman, 31 March 2013, (BÇG carried on activities until 2009, documents suggest )〕 This included monitoring some religious communities outside Turkey.〔Today's Zaman, 5 June 2012, (BÇG also compiled lists to keep tabs on Turks living abroad )〕 It has been claimed that in 1997 BÇG had records on 6 million people, and offices in the Higher Education Board (YÖK) as well as in each branch of the military.〔Today's Zaman, 29 March 2013, (Shady group had office at YÖK during 1997 coup, daily says )〕〔Today's Zaman, 25 April 2009, (Ergenekon’s Gen. Eruygur blacklisted ambassadors and bureaucrats )〕 ==Creation== General Çevik Bir (then deputy-chief of the General Staff) has said he set up the group on the orders of then Chief of the General Staff İsmail Hakkı Karadayı,〔Today's Zaman, (Karadayı knew about BÇG, Feb. 28 docs reveal )〕 and that it was a legal group defending Turkey, acting on the instructions of the National Security Council in its 28 February meeting and a cabinet meeting in March 1997.〔Today's Zaman, 17 April 2012, (http://todayszaman.com/news-277731-gen-cevik-bir-acknowledges-clandestine-bcgs-coup-plans.html )〕 According to General Çetin Saner, the head of the Turkish Gendarmerie's Intelligence Department at the time, the BÇG tried to create its own intelligence network, and had asked the Gendarmerie, police and National Intelligence Organization to forward information to it.〔Today's Zaman, 20 February 2013, (Retired Gen. Saner: BÇG created alternative intelligence network )〕 One member of the group, who was later expelled from the army for alleged "reactionaryism" (Islamist leanings), said that the meeting he had attended (chaired by General Çetin Doğan) had felt like organising "an army of occupation".〔Today's Zaman, 1 March 2011, (Retired major likens BÇG meetings to ‘occupation’ )〕〔Today's Zaman, 24 February 2013, (Retired general revealed in book he was part of plot against gov't )〕 According to media reports in 2010, the group became inactive, and re-activating it under the control of the Naval Forces Command was part of the 2003 "Sledgehammer" coup plan.〔Today's Zaman, 16 December 2010, (Coup plotters reactivated clandestine BÇG in 2003 )〕 Other reports said that some time after the 1997 memorandum the group was attached to the Prime Minister's Office, and renamed the ''Prime Ministry Monitoring Council'' ((トルコ語:Başbakanlık Takip Kurulu, BTK)).〔Today's Zaman, 12 November 2009, (Controversial Web site plan produced by clandestine BÇG )〕 The BÇG's records are said to have been used by the Turkish Army Pension Fund (OYAK) in deciding to dismiss 35 administrators after it took over steel producer Erdemir.〔Today's Zaman, 13 April 2006, (OYAK Dismissed Staff had Track Records )〕〔Today's Zaman, 10 June 2008, (Feb. 28 victims angry at new form of blacklisting )〕 The 2009 Operation Cage Action Plan is alleged by prosecutors in the Ergenekon trials to have had BÇG involvement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Batı Çalışma Grubu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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