June 1, 1956 - Abdullah Çatlı
Few figures illustrate the murky overlap between state power and political violence as concretely as Çatlı, who moved between ultranationalist street militancy and covert government work with apparent official sanction. His death in a 1996 car crash — alongside a senior police official and a member of parliament — produced the scandal known as the Susurluk affair, which exposed the depth of Turkey's "deep state" connections and forced a rare public reckoning with how far those networks extended.
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Abdullah Çatlı (1 June 1956 – 3 November 1996) 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).
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