The Ergenekon investigation started in 2007 with the confiscation of a few dozen hand grenades at a shanty house in Istanbul, but the first mention of Ergenekon dates back to 1996, half a decade before the AKP was founded.
Istraga o Ergenekonu otpočela je 2007. zapljenom nekoliko desetaka ručnih bombi u ruševnoj kući u Istanbulu, ali Ergenekon se prvi puta spominje 1996., pola desetljeća prije osnivanja AKP-a.