Susurluk Scandal - Who's Who

Who's Who

  • Mehmet Ağar. Interior Minister. Police chief until March 1995.
  • Sedat Bucak. DYP Şanlıurfa MP, chieftain of a 20,000-strong village guard clan in Siverek.
  • Abdullah Çatlı. Leader of the ultranationalist Grey Wolves, contract killer for the Counter-Guerrilla.
  • Ayhan Çarkın. Prominent member of the police force's Special Operations Department (Turkish: Özel *Harekât, ÖHD). Personally responsible for 1000 deaths.
  • Tansu Çiller. Deputy prime minister, chairman of the DYP.
  • Korkut Eken. Expert of special warfare. Affiliations with both the MİT and the ÖHD. Recruited Kurdish militias to fight the PKK in the early 1990s.
  • Mehmet Eymür. Chief of the MİT's Counter-Terrorism department.
  • Lazım Esmaeili and Askar Simitko. Iranian SAVAMA agents.
  • Tanju Akça... Diamond kingpin. Trafficking and relations with Albanian boss{ grey wolves interior
  • Doğan Güreş. Chief of the General Staff (December 1990-August 1994)
  • Hüseyin Kocadağ. Head of the Istanbul police school. Former deputy chief of the Istanbul police. Former head of the Special Operations Department.
  • Teoman Koman. Commander of the Gendarmerie (which JİTEM operates under).
  • Sönmez Köksal. Undersecretary of the MİT.
  • İbrahim Şahin. Deputy chief of the ÖHD.
  • Gonca Us. Çatlı's lover; former beauty queen.

Of the 59 people named in the third MİT report, 17 were dead by the time the report was published. Among them are 4 politicians, 4 businessmen, 14 mafia-connected nationalists, 5 military personnel, 13 security personnel, 4 MİT personnel, and 8 mafia-connected drug smugglers.

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