Muzaffer Tekin (28 October 1950, in

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– 1 April 2015) is a former member, of Turkey's Special Warfare Department, and a suspect in 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 ...

as well, as the

Turkish Council of State shooting The Turkish Council of State shooting occurred on 17 May 2006. Alparslan Arslan entered the building of Council of State, Turkey's highest administrative court, in Ankara and shot five judges, killing judge Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin. Arslan was se ...

. In August 2013, Tekin was sentenced to consecutive life sentences.

Career

Tekin graduated from the

Turkish Military Academy The Turkish Military Academy () or as it is known historically and popularly Harbiye is a four-year co-educational military academy and part of the National Defense University (Turkey), National Defence University. It is located in the cent ...

in 1972, where he had been a classmate of

Cem Ersever Ahmet Cem Ersever (1950 – 4 November 1993) was a commander in the Turkish Gendarmerie, and said to be one of the founders of the Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit. He was assassinated in November 1993. is a retired Turkish brigadier-genera ...

, and served in the Special Warfare Department. He participated in the

Turkish invasion of Cyprus The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of Cypriot intercommunal violence, intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots, Greek and Turkish Cy ...

, and according to Oktay Yıldırım was "the only lieutenant who ever received a gold medal for his work in the Cyprus Peace Operation". He was forced to retire in 1986, having reached the rank of captain, due to a Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) decision in relation to a fight Tekin was involved in. In 2007 he said that he had served in the armed forces together with Oktay Yıldırım, and said that Yıldırım was "like my son". Tekin was a partner in finance company

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, in which Turkish Council of State shooter

Alparslan Arslan Alparslan Arslan (1977 – 17 February 2023) was a Turkish national convicted of murdering Council of State (Turkey), Council of State member, Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, and wounding four others. He also took part in the bombing of the newspaper , ...

worked as a lawyer. In 2007 ''

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'' published claims, which it said were based on German police reports, that Doğuş Factoring had been used to launder drug money, and that Tekin was the lead organiser of the drug operations.

Trials

Days after the

, the

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(MIT), and police intelligence said they had had Tekin under surveillance for six months, as part of an investigation into the Vatansever Kuvvetler Güç Birliği Hareketi. On 5th August 2013, Tekin was sentenced to consecutive life sentences. On 10th March 2014, upper courts determined, that the rulings made in the Ergenekon case, were improper and therefore released all prisoners. Since all these cases were proven to be a set up against the Turkish military forces with the intent to weaken them.

References

External links

Dön dolaş aynı isimler: 'Tekin'e komutan derlerdi'
- links with Semih Tufan Gülaltay
Council of State investigation leads to 'deep' facts
- links with

İbrahim Şahin İbrahim Şahin (born 20 August 1956) is a Turkish ultranationalist and co-conspirator in the murder of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. He led General Directorate of Security's special forces unit, the Special Operations Department () and, ...

and

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 ...

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