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| Growing up in ], a small province in Middle ], Çatlı had been familiar with the ], |
Growing up in ], a small province in Middle ], Çatlı had been familiar with the ], "]" (MHP), and the Turkish nationalists. He was involved in many kinds of "dark" operations, and was allegedly instructed by Turkish officials to kill people suspected of being members of ] (PKK) terrorist organisation.. | ||
| According to reporter ], he helped ], murder the left-wing newspaper editor ] on ], ], in ]. Caught due to an informant, Mehmet Ali Ağca was then sentenced to life in prison. He soon escaped, with the help of Grey Wolves, and fled to ]. According to Lucy Komisar, Abdullah Çatlı "reportedly helped organize Agca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Catli was even involved in the {1981} Pope's assassination attempt", for which Mehmet Ali Ağca served 20 years of prison in ], before being pardoned by the Italian president {{ref|Komisar}}. Indeed, the '']'' alleged that Abdullah Çatlı had organized the assassination attempt "in exchange for the sum of 3 million ]s" for the Grey Wolves {{ref|Mondediplo}}. | According to reporter ], he helped ], murder the left-wing newspaper editor ] on ], ], in ]. Caught due to an informant, Mehmet Ali Ağca was then sentenced to life in prison. He soon escaped, with the help of Grey Wolves, and fled to ]. According to Lucy Komisar, Abdullah Çatlı "reportedly helped organize Agca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Catli was even involved in the {1981} Pope's assassination attempt", for which Mehmet Ali Ağca served 20 years of prison in ], before being pardoned by the Italian president {{ref|Komisar}}. Indeed, the '']'' alleged that Abdullah Çatlı had organized the assassination attempt "in exchange for the sum of 3 million ]s" for the Grey Wolves {{ref|Mondediplo}}. | ||
| Çatlı was "seen in company of ]", an Italian neofascist, who worked for ] "stay-behind" NATO secret paramilitary organizations, according to the same sources, "while touring ] ''and'' on a visit to ] in ]" (emphasis added). He then went to ], where, under the alias of Hasan Kurtoglu, he planned a series of attacks on Armenian interests and on the ], including the blowing up of the Armenian monument at ] on ], ] and the attempted murder of activist ]. | |||
| == 1996 Car accident == | == 1996 Car accident == | ||
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Abdullah Çatlı (1956 - November 3, 1996) was a Turkish nationalist and right-wing activist who was linked with the "Grey Wolves", a movement of the Turkish "Nationalist Movement Party". He was instrumental in destroying the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) terrorist organization.
Grey Wolves member and Gladio operative
Growing up in Nevşehir, a small province in Middle Anatolia, Çatlı had been familiar with the nationalist, "Nationalist Movement Party" (MHP), and the Turkish nationalists. He was involved in many kinds of "dark" operations, and was allegedly instructed by Turkish officials to kill people suspected of being members of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorist organisation..
According to reporter Lucy Komisar, he helped Mehmet Ali Ağca, murder the left-wing newspaper editor Abdi İpekçi on January 1, 1979, in Istanbul. Caught due to an informant, Mehmet Ali Ağca was then sentenced to life in prison. He soon escaped, with the help of Grey Wolves, and fled to Bulgaria. According to Lucy Komisar, Abdullah Çatlı "reportedly helped organize Agca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Catli was even involved in the {1981} Pope's assassination attempt", for which Mehmet Ali Ağca served 20 years of prison in Italy, before being pardoned by the Italian president . Indeed, the Monde diplomatique alleged that Abdullah Çatlı had organized the assassination attempt "in exchange for the sum of 3 million German Marks" for the Grey Wolves .
1996 Car accident
Çatlı died in a car accident in 1996 in Susurluk, a town in the province of Balıkesir. With him in the car were Hüseyin Kocadağ (a famous police officer), Sedat Bucak (Member of Parliament of Şanlıurfa province), and Gonca Us (Abdullah Çatlı's girlfriend, a Turkish beauty queen turned mafia hit-woman).
At the time of his death, Çatlı was a convicted fugitive, who had been wanted for drug trafficking and murder. Evidence seized at the crash site indicated that he had been carrying:
- a special diplomatic credentials, given by the Turkish authorities;
- a government-approved weapons permit;
- six ID cards, each with a different name; Lucy Komisar write that "At the scene of the Mercedes-Benz crash, Turkish investigators found Catli with a fake passport. "The person on this photo, Mehmet Ozbay, serves as a specialist for the police directorate and he is allowed to carry guns." Mehmet Ozbay was an alias -- the very same alias that Mehmet Ali Agca had on his own passport. "
- several handguns, and silencers; and
- a cache of narcotics.
When it became obvious that Catli was a police collaborator, the Turkish Interior Minister resigned. Several high-ranking law enforcement officers, including Istanbul's police chief, were suspended. And the red-hot scandal eventually endangered the careers of other senior government officials.
Notes
- Lucy Komisar is an investigative journalist who wrote on Gladio and Clearstream scandal.
- "Turkey's pivotal role in the international drug trade (in English)". Le Monde diplomatique. July 1998.
Bibliography
- Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe ISBN 0714685003 (a quick resume available here)
See also
- Grey Wolves
- Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to murder the Pope in 1981
- Gladio "stay-behind" NATO clandestine structure
External links
- Cyprus action
- Grey Wolves Terrorists
- Various documents (Report by the SIFAR (Italian Military Secret Service) on Operation Gladio; US Field Manual; Report by Giulio Andreotti; Parliamentary Investigation into the Swiss Defense Ministry; various FOIA requests to the CIA; Parliamentary Investigation report in Belgium & in Italy...)