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The trial against the former Deputy Chief of Police and boss of the counter guerrilla Mehmet Agar has started on February 9, 2009 at the 11th Heavy Penalty Court, Ankara. Agar is being convicted because of "having found an armed organisation to commit a crime" in relation to the trial on Susurluk. {divide}Agar being considered as responsible for 3000 extra-judicial killings and 1000 secret operations emphasised in his speech at the court that he "served the state and the nation based on the law and with fidelity" and demanded his acquittal. The next hearing of the trial of Agar who decided not to participate anymore in the trial and proposed to send a written statement instead was set for May 13, 2009. The application of the families of Hasan Ocak and Huseyin Toraman who both had been disappeared under arrest and their lawyers of the Law Office of the Oppressed to become joint plaintiff was rejected by the court.
During the trial democratic revolutionary organisations, such as the DTP , ESP , HOC and IHD , realised an action in front of the court. In a statement in the name of the organisations it was said that the trial of Agar, the boss of the counter guerrilla, is a fake trial and they demanded to merge it with the Ergenekon trial.
On the same day, the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed organised actions in Antakya, Malatya, Bursa, Istanbul and Izmir. At the actions the activists demanded the clarification of the 1000 secret operations and 3000 extra-judicial killings that had been commanded by Agar. At the action in Istanbul, attention was drawn to the crimes committed by Agar against the people including Sivas and Gazi .
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