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 Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele or Jandarma İstihbarat Teşkilatı (abbr. ''JİTEM'' or ''JİT''; English: "Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism" or "Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization") is the intelligence department of ...

intelligence unit. He was assassinated in November 1993.Ergenekon indictment reopens gendarmerie major’s murder case
, ''

Today's Zaman ''Today's Zaman'' (Zaman is Turkish for 'time' or 'age') was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey. Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily '' Zaman.'' ''Today's Zaman'' included dom ...

'', 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."

, 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 ''Aydınlık'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (''Vatan Partisi''). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011. Histo ...

'', 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 Veli Küçük (born 9 May 1944)Today's Zaman, 16 June 2009Ultranationalist Ergenekon suspect is of Armenian origin, magazine reveals/ref> is a retired Turkish brigadier-general. He is thought to be the founder of the JİTEM intelligence arm of t ...

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 Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
um:ag was a

, General

Eşref Bitlis Eşref Bitlis (Malatya 1933 – Ankara 17 February 1993) was a general in the Turkish Gendarmerie, who died in a controversial plane crash. Background He was born 1933 in the eastern Anatolian city of Malatya, Turkey. He attended the Turkish Mil ...

and Ersever had all been killed to cover up arms sales from the Ergenekon organization to armed Kurdish groups.Ergenekon linked to Mumcu murder
, ''

'', 5 August 2008 He was declared a "martyr" by the Turkish Gendarmerie in 2011.

Doğu Perinçek Doğu Perinçek (; born 17 June 1942) is a Turkish politician, doctor of law and former communist revolutionary who has been chairman of the left-wing nationalist Patriotic Party since 2015. He was also a member of the Talat Pasha Committee, an ...

has claimed that Ersever was assassinated to cover up his role in the assassination of

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

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

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