Abdullah Çatlı was a Turkish secret government agent, as well as a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). He led the Grey Wolves, the youth branch of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), during the 1970s. His death in the Susurluk car crash, while travelling in a car with state officials, revealed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime in what became known as the Susurluk scandal. He was a hitman for the state, and was involved in the killings of suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).
Altun is a Turkish surname meaning gold or golden. Notable people with the surname include:
Çelik, meaning "steel" in Turkish, is a Turkish given name and surname. It may refer to:
The Susurluk scandal was a scandal involving the close relationship among the deep state in Turkey, the Grey Wolves and the Turkish mafia. It took place during the peak of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, in the mid-1990s. The relationship came into existence after the National Security Council (NSC) posited the need for the marshaling of the state's resources to combat the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Kunt is a Turkish surname. It means strong or durable in ancient Turkish.
Fikri also spelled Fekri, is a masculine given Arabic name or surname in the possessive form, which generally means "thoughtful" but also could bear the meaning "intellectually, mentally, spiritual". It may refer to:
Baştürk is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kurtoğlu is a Turkish name. In old times it was a patronymic lakap (epithet) meaning "son of Kurt", from the Turkish first name "Kurt". The latter name literally means "wolf" in Turkish. In modern times the epithet has become a surname. Notable people with this epithet or surname include:
Demirci is a Turkish surname meaning "blacksmith". Notable people with the surname include:
Köse is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Terzioğlu is a Turkish surname. It is an occupational surname of patronymic derivation: Terzi (tailor) + -oğlu
Akar is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Çolak is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Karel is a surname that is derived from the given names Carl and Karl. Notable people with the surname include:
Kılıç is a Turkish surname meaning "sword". Notable people with the surname include:
The Susurluk car crash took place on 3 November 1996 in the small town of Susurluk, in Turkey's Balıkesir Province. It resulted in the death of three of the passengers: Abdullah Çatlı, a former ultra-rightist militant wanted by police for multiple murders and drug trafficking; Huseyin Kocadağ, a senior police official; and beauty queen Gonca Us. Sedat Bucak, an MP, escaped with a broken leg and fractured skull. The Susurluk crash was a key event in the unravelling of the deep state in Turkey. The peculiar associations of the crash victims and their links with Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar led to a number of investigations, including a parliamentary investigation, of what became known as the Susurluk scandal.
Kurt is a Turkish surname literally meaning "wolf". It may also be a Hungarian surname Kürt ("horn") spelled without diactirics
Özdilek is a Turkish surname formed by the combination of the two Turkish words öz and dilek and may refer to:
Pehlivan or Pahlevan derives from Iranian language word meaning noble, wrestler, hero or champion and it is a loan word in many Asiatic languages as well as middle eastern languages including Turkish surname originally given to wrestlers. The name of Feyli (Pehli) Kurds is also deriving from the same root word. The word consist of two Iranic (Aryen) word "pehli" or "pahli" and "van, wan". While peh, pah is root word for hero "van" or "wan" is a suffix similar as in "er, or" in soldier, warrior, wrestler, shopper.
Karlov is a Slavic masculine surname that originates from the given name Carl. Its feminine counterpart is Karlova. Notable people with the surname include:
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