Mirzabeyoğlu’s trial ended in 2000 before it even truly began. The presiding judge of the 6th State Security Court, Sedat Karagül, was dismissed from his post and replaced by Metin Çetinbaş. As soon as Metin Çetinbaş took over the case, he concluded the trial in a rush, as if spiriting away goods from a fire, and sentenced Mirzabeyoğlu to death. Years passed, and Metin Çetinbaş left the judiciary to become a lawyer. He became the attorney for Kemal Alemdaroğlu, one of the defendants in the Ergenekon case. And while Yeni Akit was investigating the Ergenekon trial, it discovered a startling truth: the decision of non-prosecution regarding Mirzabeyoğlu issued by the Adana State Security Court had been swept under the rug, and he had been sentenced to death in the case opened for the same matter at the Istanbul State Security Court! Just like how İskilipli Atıf Hodja was acquitted at the Giresun Independence Tribunal, only to be taken to the Ankara Independence Tribunal and hastily executed before he could be released...