Premijer Recep Tayyip Erdogan povezao je tu čistku s dugotrajnom istragom o mutnoj mreži tvrdolinijaških nacionalista i tvrdih sekularista zvanoj Ergenekon.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked the sweep to the long-running investigation into a shadowy network of hard-line nationalists and staunch secularists called Ergenekon.