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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TASC | Turkish American National Steering Committee - ECPv5.1.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:TASC | Turkish American National Steering Committee X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eski.ourtasc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for TASC | Turkish American National Steering Committee BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190130T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190130T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T022432 CREATED:20190126T121502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190126T121502Z UID:232-1548873000-1548878400@eski.ourtasc.org SUMMARY:Embassy Row Lecture Series: The Balyoz & Ergenekon Prosecutions DESCRIPTION:TASC Embassy Row Lecture Series \nHow the Balyoz and Ergenekon Prosecutions Changed my Life Forever\nAdmiral Deniz Kutluk (Ret.) Shares his Experience\nAdmiral Deniz Kutluk (Ret.) was a rising star in the Turkish military. An expert in the Law of the Sea\, Aegean Sea\, Cyprus\, and Eastern Mediterranean at the Turkish General Staff Division on Plans and Policy (1996-1998)\, Chief of the Turkish General Staff Intelligence Department (1999-2001)\, Turkish General Staff Director of Resource and Defence Planning (2007-2008)\, Admiral Kutluk was destined to lead at the top of the Turkish military. \nBut followers of Fethullah Gülen who had infiltrated the military forced his retirement in 2009. Admiral Kutulk recovered from the ouster\, and became the manager of a pharmaceutical company that quickly rose to No.1 in sales in Turkey. Meanwhile he informed the Turkish authorities of the formation of a parallel system of government in which the democratically elected government of Turkey would be subservient to an obscure network accountable to only one authority\, Fethullah Gülen. \nJust as he was obtaining traction\, the Balyoz and Ergenekon scandals erupted\, and Admiral Kutluk was detained for four years on false charges that he was a part of a group of military officers who were plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected Turkish government. Admiral Kutluk speaks out about how Gulenist elements in the prosecutor’s office and judge’s chambers mobilized a prosecution against him and more than 700 of his colleagues. \nAll of the cases were eventually dropped\, but it was too late for Deniz Kutuluk and his colleagues. Admiral Kutluk had lost his military career. He received an apology from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and became eligible for indemnification for false charges and false imprisonment. \nAfter his release from prison\, Admiral Kutluk became the Executive Director of an Indian IT company. He later became the chairman of the board of one of Turkey’s leading defence companies. He is currently a professor at the University of Ankara Faculty of Law\, LLM program. He has dedicated his personal time to informing the public about FETO (Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization). \n URL:https://eski.ourtasc.org/event/embassy-row-lecture-series-the-balyoz-ergenekon-prosecutions/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eski.ourtasc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Admiral-Deniz-Kutluk.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="TASC":MAILTO:info@ourtasc.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR