Istraga o Ergenekonu otpočela je 2007. godine, zapljenom nekoliko desetina ručnih bombi u jednoj ruševnoj kući u Istanbulu, ali prvo pominjanje Ergenekona datira još iz 1996, pola decenije prije nego što je AKP i osnovana.
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.