Adnan Ekmen, former minister of state responsible for human rights, made a confession saying that the massacre of Guclukonak, Sirnak, on January 12, 1996 had not been carried out by the PKK as declared by the general staff but by the state itself. 11 peasants, four of them village guards, had been killed in the massacre for having supported the PKK, during a time when Tansu Ciller was prime minister and the PKK had launched its second ceasefire. {divide}The massacre had been realised in a region totally under the control of JITEM , and JITEM had the undamaged ID cards of the 11 peasants who had been shot and then burned. The next day after the massacre the general staff had sent foreign journalists to Guclukonak to show that ‘the PKK had broken its ceasefire'.
Ekmen said that "the conditions had not been suitable" to expose this cause earlier "but that he had to stop his silence he had maintained so far being plagued by his conscious." Ekmen demanded to add the massacre of Guclukonak to the Ergenekon trial and emphasized to give testimony if required. He said: "Ergenekon was fed by the East, it developed there. It is my call to the public prosecutors working on the Ergenekon trial: You can not find the truth unless you analyse this incident in particular as well as the incidents in general".
Human rights defenders who had launched 3 complaints on the massacre of Guclukonak so far, but who had been convicted themselves instead of enlightening the incident, launched a complaint for the 4th time on February 13. Before handing in the complaint, the group, among them musicians, journalists, intellectuals and lawyers, made an action in front of Besiktas Court, Istanbul demanding the conviction of those responsible of the massacre of Guclukonak.