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

, in a mysterious plane crash.

Controversy

A so-called "repentant militant" (i.e., defector of the PKK) and PKK informer, Hakan was given the code name "Mustafa Deniz" and assumed a new existence. In June 1993 he co-founded an

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-based film and video company. On 1 November 1993 he disappeared, and on 4 November his corpse was found in the vicinity of Avcılar Village of Polatlı District of Ankara, shot dead by a bullet to his head, while the bodies of

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commander

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-general ...

and his girlfriend

Nevval Boz Muhsine Neval Boz real name Mahsune Dguvebe (died 4 November 1993) was a Turkish woman who was killed, according to some as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis, who died in a mysterious plane crash. She was k ...

were found elsewhere.

References

1965 births 1993 deaths Members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party Apoists {{turkey-bio-stub