TUSHAD (Turkish: Türkiye Ulusal Stratejiler ve Harekât Dairesi, TUSHAD; English: National Strategies and Operations Department of Turkey) was a clandestine organization within the Turkish Armed Forces, including within the General Staff of Turkey.
[8] Prosecutors allege that TUSHAD carried out the Zirve Publishing House massacre in 2007.
İlker Çınar told prosecutors that he had heard of the planned attack from retired Col. Mehmet Ülger, but that it was not clear that it would involve the killing of the publishers.
According to Çınar, Ülger also linked the attack with the assassinations of Andrea Santoro (2006) and Hrant Dink (2007), describing them as "operations".
[6][9] The Zirve murders are claimed to be part of the "Cage Action Plan", which is being prosecuted in the Poyrazköy case of the Ergenekon trials.