A person arrested on suspicion of assassination attempt against General Levent Ersoz, suspect of Ergenekon case speaks fluent Armenian and repeatedly visited the country.

According to Turkish Vatan, a man named Erkhan Keskin made several shots at the ceiling of the hospital Ersoz was. Arrested Keskin told law enforcers that the assassination was ordered by some retired officer, however no-one appeared in predetermined time and he decided to fire in the air.

Police found and arrested the paymaster. During the interrogation, it was discovered that Keskin had repeatedly visited Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan and speaks pretty good Armenian. However, he refused to name the aims of his visits.

Ergenekon is a terrorist organization planning coup d’etat and assassinations of Turkish politicians. It was disclosed that the organization members attempted to kill Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrop Mutafyan, the leader of Armenian community of Sebastia and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Retired General Levent Ersoz heading the operations on execution of KAWA group (competing with Kurdistan Worker’s Party) is a key person in the organization.

A.G.