Sinan Aygun

Sinan Aygün (* 1959 in Kelkit County in Gümüşhane Province ) is a Turkish businessman and President of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce .

Life

Aygün attended elementary school, middle school and high school in Ankara. He completed his university education at Gazi University in Ankara in the field of English language and English literature . Aygün earns his living as a building contractor and owner of a shop for building accessories. Aygün gained notoriety after he was elected President of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce in 1997. Aygün is said to have gained popularity among the population because he published studies on various topics, for example on credit card law.

In the 2011 parliamentary election , Aygün ran for the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi and was elected to the National Assembly.

marital status

Aygün is married and has one child.

Ergenekon investigation

On the morning of June 1, 2008, Aygün was arrested by anti-terrorist police units as part of the Ergenekon investigation on the instructions of prosecutors Zekeriya Öz and Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel. When asked by a journalist why he was being arrested, Aygün is said to have replied, " I have been accused of loving Ataturk ." His official reason for arrest was given with suspicion of membership in a terrorist group. Aygün was released on June 15, 2008 from the maximum security prison in Kocaeli . The daily newspaper taz commented in an article with the headline AKP critics arrested that most would not believe in a coincidence, that the wave of arrests of AKP critics. which also concerned Aygün, was held at the same time as Prosecutor General Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya was making his appeal to the Constitutional Court on the AKP ban proceedings. It was also established that there was a suspicion among the Turkish public that this was a settlement of the AKP and the Fethullah Gülen movement with their opponents.

On April 10, 2008, months before his arrest, a Glock- brand gun was found repairing a boiler in Aygun's office. The find was reported to the police on the same day. The President of the Chamber of Commerce, Nuri Gürgür, asked the press what would have happened if the weapon had not been found by accident, but only when Aygün was arrested and the house was searched. He is also reported to have remarked that he found this fact interesting and that it should be considered.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} : Turkish website for biographies kimkimdir.gen.tr: Biographical data from Aygün , (Turkish)
2. ↑ : Internet portal of the German daily Taz : AKP critics arrested , accessed on July 1, 2008
3. ↑ : Internet portal of the Turkish daily newspaper Hürriyet : ATO'da suikast silahı bilmecesi , accessed on June 2, 2008 (Turkish)