Abdullah Çatlı

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Abdullah Çatlı (born June 1, 1956 in Nevşehir , † November 3, 1996 in Balıkesir ) was a controversial figure who is associated with political murders by the paramilitary organization of the Gray Wolves . He was convicted of drug trafficking .

biography

Çatlı grew up in Nevşehir in the Central Anatolian Cappadocia .

Together with Haluk Kırcı, he is held responsible for the Bahçelievler massacre , in which seven members of the Workers' Party of Turkey were murdered on October 9, 1978 . After the fact, he is said to have traveled around the United States and South America with the Italian neo-fascist and right- wing terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie , with whom he was in close contact . He is said to have supported the pope assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca in the murder of Milliyet editor-in-chief Abdi İpekçi on February 2, 1979. He is said to have later helped free Ağca from an Istanbul prison.

On May 3, 1984, he is said to have played a key role in the bomb attack in Paris on the Armenian Memorial to the Great Genocide .

According to a report in the magazine Le Monde diplomatique (1997), he is said to have testified in Rome in 1985 that he had been offered money by the German secret service BND if he brought the Bulgarian and Russian secret services into connection with the act of papacy. He also testified that he had obtained the weapon for the Papacy deed for Agca. Çatlı is also held responsible for the organization of the attack, for which mafia boss Bekir Çelenk is said to have paid the Gray Wolves 3 million marks.

At the time of his death, Çatlı was wanted by Interpol after he escaped from a Swiss prison in 1990 and was serving a drug trafficking sentence.

Çatlı died in a car accident near Susurluk in 1996 . This triggered the so-called Susurluk scandal , because Hüseyin Kocadağ , the head of Ankara's police department, and Sedat Edip Bucak , a DYP parliamentarian from Urfa, were in the car with him . A passport personally signed by then Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar was also found on him . In the trunk of the car, the police found two submachine guns, five pistols with silencers, bed bugs, and a forged entry pass for the Turkish parliamentary grounds. Çatli had six identity cards with him, each with a different name, and a diplomatic passport that identified him as a finance inspector.

Several books have been written about Abdullah Çatlı, including a biography of his daughter Gökçen Çatlı.

In the course of the investigation into the Ergenekon organization, documents emerged that are supposed to prove that Çatlı was financially supported by the Turkish domestic secret service MİT .

literature

  • Soner Yalçın and Doğan Yurdakul: Rice - Gladyo'nun Tetikçisi ; Doğan Kitap Publishing House, ISBN 975-293-093-X
  • Hakan Türk: Abdullah Çatlı Kimdir? ; Akademi Yayıncılık Publishing House, ISBN 979-975-8208-00-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kendal Nezan: La Turquie, plaque tournante du trafic de drogue Turkey - the hub of drug trafficking. Criminals with diplomatic passports ( memento of February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Le Monde diplomatique , July 1998
  2. ↑ Stephen Kinzer : Scandal Links Turkish Aides To Deaths, Drugs and Terror , New York Times , December 10, 1996, quote: "... his escape in 1990 from a Swiss prison, where he was serving a sentence for heroin smuggling."
  3. ↑ Daniele Ganser , NATO secret armies (section Turkey)
  4. ↑ Lucy Komisar: Turkey's Terrorists: A CIA Legacy Lives On ( Memento April 18, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) , The Progressive , April 1997, accessed May 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Ergenekon document reveals MİT's assassination secrets ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Today's Zaman , August 19, 2008
  6. ↑ Martin A. Lee: The Long Breath of the Gray Wolves ( Memento from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , Le Monde diplomatique , March 1997
  7. ↑ Martin A. Lee: When John Paul II Was Shot in St. Peter's Square ( May 15, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) , San Francisco Bay Guardian , May 14, 2001
  8. ↑ The Susurluk Accident - Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (DHKC) release, January 11, 1997 , Turkish Daily News , January 7, 1997
  9. ↑ Udo Steinbach : History of Turkey . Beck, Munich 2007, p. 60 f.
  10. ↑ James H. Meyer: Turkey's Leaders - Çiller's Scandals , Middle East Quarterly , September 1997
  11. ↑ Gökçen Çatlı: Babam Çatlı ; Timaş Publishing House, ISBN 975-362-573-1
  12. ↑ Neslihan Özturk: Abdullah Catli's daughter to write book on her father ( Memento of 14 April 2015, Internet Archive ) , Turkish Daily News , July 3, 1997
  13. ^ Mehmet Akif Beki: Two portraits of "The Chief": Which Catli? ( February 10, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ) , Turkish Daily News , November 10, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Çatlı, Abdullah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish far-right activist, member of the Gray Wolves
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevşehir
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1996
Place of death Balikesir