Abdullah Çatlı (born June 1, 1956, Nevşehir – November 3, 1996; died 12 November 1996; Susurluk, Balıkesir) is a Turkish organized crime leader, mafia leader, deep state agent and counter-guerrilla member. He was tried for various murders in Turkey. He fled abroad after the September XNUMX Coup, and was tried for drug trafficking. He escaped from his prison. He died in XNUMX in Susurluk.
He was elected to the Ankara Provincial Presidency of the Ülkü Ocakları in 1977, and to the Vice President of the Ülkücü Youth Association on May 25, 1978.
In 1977, the Ankara Police Department took action against him for violating the Law No. 6136, shooting at the police and hiding the crime weapon.
On July 11, 1978, Assoc. Dr. As the perpetrator of the murder of Bedrettin Cömert, the Ankara 5th Criminal Court of Peace has decided to detain him in absentia. He was caught and detained in Sakarya province on August 23, 1978.
The arrest warrant regarding the allegations that Abdullah Çatlı was the planner and chief responsible for the killing of 9 TİP members in the Bahçelievler district of Ankara on October 1978, 7, was made 4 years and 4 months later. In 7, the decision to issue a Red Bulletin was taken by the Ankara Martial Law Command for the crimes of killing 6136 people in Ankara with his accomplices in the Bahçelievler Massacre, establishing an illegal organization, throwing explosives, and violating the law numbered 1982 by the Ankara Martial Law Command.
In October 1980, the Konya Second Army and Martial Law Command Military Prosecutor's Office decided to search for Mehmet Ali Ağca and himself for issuing a false passport named Hasan Dağaslan. In 1995, the Edirne Police Department took a decision to arrest Ağca for helping to take Ağca abroad.
In 1982, the request for extradition, conveyed by the Minister of Justice to the Swiss authorities through diplomatic channels, containing the accusations of "inciting the people to take action against the government by using weapons and killing 7 people", was rejected by the Swiss authorities as it was not in accordance with their own legislation. When Abdurrahman Kipçak, the number 1981 suspect in the MHP case opened in 2, mentioned in the murder of Adana Police Chief Cevat Yurdakul, was caught, Abdullah Çatlı connection was identified. Abdullah Çatlı was also arrested in Switzerland while he was wanted in connection with the murder of Cevat Yurdakul. However, he was released because the Swiss authorities did not receive the relevant documents. Uğur Coşkun, one of the convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of CHP Provincial Chairman Zeki Tekiner, said that they used Çatlı's car during the discovery made before the assassination.
Çatlı went abroad in the months following the September 12 Coup. He stayed for a while in Bulgaria and Vienna. On February 22, 1982, he was caught with a passport issued in the name of Mehmet Özbay in Switzerland, but he was released. Our extradition request to Turkey was not accepted due to the political nature of the crime. It was included in the official documents of the MIT that he contacted the National Intelligence Organization in Paris on October 22, 1983 and was used in 5 actions against ASALA. Intelligence officer Korkut Eken also stated that Abdullah Çatlı had relations with MIT in the early 1980s.
On October 24, 1984, when he was caught in Paris, France for drug smuggling, he had a passport issued in the name of Hasan Kurtoğlu. In addition, heroin substance, another fake passport and a fake seal belonging to the Turkish Consulate General in Stuttgart were found on it. Çatlı was sentenced to 7 years in prison in France. While he was in Sante Prison, Turkey's extradition request from France was not accepted on 27 May 1985 due to the death penalty in Turkey.
Çatlı's name was later confused with Mehmet Ali Ağca's assassination attempt on the Pope. In the 1981 report of the Italian military police, Ağca's name was Abdullah Çatlı, Oral Çelik, Üzeyir. Bayraklı It is stated that he has friendships with Çatlı spoke as a witness in the Assassination of the Pope case on September 16, 1985. He claimed that Oral Çelik had nothing to do with the assassination and that Mehmet Ali Ağca might have been a Bulgarian agent.
While in France, where he was sentenced to 1985 years in 7, Çatlı was extradited to Switzerland for drug smuggling. He escaped from Bostadel Prison on March 21, 1990 while he was being held in Bostadel Prison in the Swiss canton of Zug.
On February 26, 1992, he was prosecuted by the Istanbul Police Department for attempting to go abroad using a fake passport named Şahin Attached, and he was released. On August 3, 1994, he requested a passport with a special stamp, as he was a Finance Inspector at the Ministry of Finance, with a false identity card issued in the name of Mehmet Özbay. On August 31, 1996, Balıkesir Police Department took action for Mehmet Özbay shooting with a licensed gun in a residential area with his fake identity.
It was also revealed from the records that Çatlı went to Cyprus on the same plane with Ömer Lütfü Topal on April 26, 1996 and returned on May 1, 1996 after staying at the same hotel.
Some Known Activities After 1980
- In 1982, the murder of Armenian-born TKP/ML member Nubar Yalımyan in the Netherlands.
- Attempted murder of Armenian activist Ara Toranian in France.
- The bombing of the Armenian monument in Paris on May 3, 1984.
- January 24, 1984 A wanted by the police for drug dealing in Paris.
- According to Kurdish writer Kendal Nezan, the murder of Kurdish-Armenian drug smuggler Behçet Cantürk in Sapanca.
- The murder of the PKK supporter Greek Theophilos Georgiadis in 1994 was associated with the Çatlı team.
- Murder of Ömer Lütfü Topal, known as the king of casinos.
- Murder of Kurdish-Iranian smugglers Lazım Esmaeili and Askar Simitko.
- Former MIT administrator Mehmet Eymür claimed in his interview that he was dealing with drugs.
When and How Did Abdullah Çatlı Die?
He died on November 3, 1996, in a traffic accident that went down in history as the Susurluk accident near the Susurluk district of Balıkesir. During the accident, Gonca Us, who was sitting on the rear left side, and Hüseyin Kocadağ, the former deputy chief of police of Istanbul, who was driving the car, died next to Çatlı. Only Sedat Edip Bucak, a DYP deputy at the time, was able to escape from the four people inside the vehicle. Kutlu Savaş, Chairman of the Prime Ministry Inspection Board, is frequently mentioned in the report prepared for the Susurluk Scandal.
After the funeral in Nevşehir, he was buried in the Pavement Cemetery in Nevşehir.
There are conspiracy theories about his death. The most important of these are the failure of the brake system of the accident vehicle and the death of it by breaking its neck after the accident.
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