“Ergenekon” is the name given to arguably the most important legal process in Turkish history in which around 100 suspects are charged with aiming to topple the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) through a military coup. The legal indictment infers that these suspects are in fact a part of a wider network of individuals within the armed forces, intelligence community, executive branches, academia, media, and civil society, suggesting that the network in question is an evolved version of a similar network dating back to the final years of the Ottoman Empire and incorporated into the NATO operations during the Cold War. While the legal process has the potential to be the single most important process that will shed light on the last century of Turkish history, it is also surrounded by many legal and political controversies, including acute anti-American rhetoric.