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 u slučaju Ergenekon počela je 2007. zaplenom nekoliko desetina ručnih bombi u jednoj baraci u Istanbulu, ali je ta organizacija prvi put pomenuta 1996, pet godina pre samog osnivanja AKP.