Osman Nuri Gündeş (1925-31 March 2015) was a Turkish intelligence official in the

National Intelligence Organization The National Intelligence Organization ( tr, Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) is the state intelligence agency of Turkey. Established in 1965 to replace National Security Service, its aim is to gather information about the current and po ...

(MIT). He was chairman of the MIT's Istanbul region, retiring in 1986. He was later chief intelligence adviser in the mid-1990s to Prime Minister

Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. As the leader of the True Path P ...

Career

Gündeş served in the MIT from 1964 to 1986. He was Vice President of MIT for the Istanbul region from 1977 to 1984. In 1984 he was posted to Ankara as head of foreign intelligence. He retired from MIT in 1986. Former MIT colleague

Mehmet Eymür Mehmet Eymür (born 1943 in Istanbul) is a retired Turkish intelligence official. In 1995-6 he led the counter-terrorism department of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), which he joined as a student in 1965 as a "pursuit officer" ( tr, ...

said in 2011 that whilst at MIT Gündeş had used

Abdullah Çatlı 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 ...

in "many operations abroad". Eymür had included Gündeş in his 1987 MIT Report on links between the state and the Turkish mafia. Gündeş was later chief intelligence adviser in the mid-1990s to Prime Minister

. When Çiller came to office in June 1993, she wanted to replace MIT head

Sönmez Köksal Sönmez Köksal (born 8 March 1940) is a career Turkish people, Turkish civil servant. He served in a variety of positions largely in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in international organisations representing Turkey, and was Turkey's Ambassad ...

, possibly with Gündeş, but met political resistance, and left Köksal in post, and appointed Gündeş as an advisor instead. Hurriyet Daily News, 31 January 1997
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Fikri Sağlar Fikri Sağlar (born 1953) is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for ''Birgün''. In ...

of the

Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...

(CHP) says Çiller had Gündeş create a separate intelligence agency called the Public Security Headquarters ( tr, Kamu Güvenlik Başkanlığı, curiously shortening to KGB). Upon hearing news of unsavory activity from the KGB, president

Süleyman Demirel Süleyman Sami Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the List of Presidents of Turkey, 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the ...

had it dismantled.

Books

* ''İhtilallerin ve Anarşinin Yakın Tanığı'' ("Close Witness of Revolutions and Anarchy"), 2010.

References

1925 births 2015 deaths People of the National Intelligence Organization (Turkey) {{Turkey-bio-stub