Ahmet Cem Ersever (1950 – 4 November 1993) was a commander in the

Turkish Gendarmerie The Gendarmerie General Command () is the national gendarmerie force of the Republic of Turkey. It is a service branch of the Turkish Ministry of Interior responsible for the maintenance of the public order in areas that fall outside the jurisdi ...

, and said to be one of the founders of the Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit. He was assassinated in November 1993.Ergenekon indictment reopens gendarmerie major’s murder case
, '' Today's Zaman'', 13 August 2008. His girlfriend and translator Nevval Boz was also assassinated, along with

İhsan Hakan İhsan Hakan (1965, in Ankara – 1 November 1993, in Ankara), also known as Mustafa Deniz, was a Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK defector who was killed, according to some as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of general Eşref Bitlis ...

, a former PKK member. Prior to his assassination, Ersever had left the army and began speaking to the press, and said he was in charge of JITEM's south-eastern operations. In his resignation statement he said "A gang formed inside the authorized organization in the Southeast is preventing the Turkish nation from seeing the real dimensions of the events taking place there." Today's Zaman, 2 February 2008
Ersever’s top-secret archive found in general’s house
He published a book on the war with the PKK under the pen-name ''Ahmet Aydın''. His interviews with journalist Soner Yalçın were published in '' Aydınlık'', after which the Military Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation, and took a deposition from Ersever. Ersever's archive went missing after his death, but was later found in the house of Veli Küçük during investigations for the

Ergenekon trials The Ergenekon trials or the Ergenekon conspiracy, were a series of high-profile trials which took place in 2008–2016 in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Erge ...

. A report found in Küçük's house suggested that journalist Uğur Mumcu, General Eşref Bitlis and Ersever had all been killed to cover up arms sales from the Ergenekon organization to armed Kurdish groups.Ergenekon linked to Mumcu murder
, '' Today's Zaman'', 5 August 2008 He was declared a "martyr" by the Turkish Gendarmerie in 2011. Doğu Perinçek has claimed that Ersever was assassinated to cover up his role in the assassination of Eşref Bitlis earlier that year. Hurriyet Daily News, 7 December 1996
Perincek says Ersever killing was to cover up Bitlis murder
/ref> A report in the 1990s by police chief Hanefi Avcı said that Ersever had been killed by Mahmut Yıldırım (codename ''Yeşil'') on the orders of Veli Küçük.

Books

* Ersever (under pen-name ''Ahmet Aydın''biyografi.net
Cem Ersever - (04.11.1993)
/ref>) (1993), ''Kürtler, PKK ve A. Öcalan'', KİYAP * Ersever (under pen-name ''Ahmet Aydın'') (1993), ''Üçgendeki tezgâh'' ("Conspiracy in the Triangle"), KİYAP * Çetin Ağaşe (2003), ''Cem Ersever ve JİTEM gerçeği'', Bilge Karınca * Tutkun Akbaş (2009), ''Cem Ersever'in son 90 günü ve kayıp kitabı "Şam'daki kemancı"'', Dama Yayınları

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ersever, Cem 1950 births 1993 deaths People from Erzurum Turkish Military Academy alumni Turkish Army officers Turkish Gendarmerie personnel JİTEM personnel Assassinated Turkish military personnel Susurluk scandal