Hulusi Sayın (28 April 1926 – 30 January 1991) was a general in the

Turkish Gendarmerie The Gendarmerie General Command ( tr, Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı) 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 a ...

, and may have been involved with 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 unofficial and illegal intel ...

intelligence unit. He retired in 1989 and become an adviser to the Prime Minister's office. He was assassinated outside his home in January 1991; the assassination was claimed by

Dev Sol The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front ( tr, Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP-C) is a far-left Marxist–Leninist Communist party in Turkey. It was founded in 1978 as Revolutionary Left (Turkish: or ), and has been in ...

, a leftist organization. At the time of his death Sayın was known to be advocating a peaceful solution to the

Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the curr ...

.'' Today's Zaman'', 4 October 2010
All officers on Bitlis’ team killed in unsolved murders, daily claims
Sayın graduated from the

Turkish Military Academy The Turkish Military Academy ( tr, Kara Harp Okulu) is a four-year co-educational military academy and part of the National Defence University. It is located in the center of Ankara, Turkey. Its mission is to develop cadets mentally and ph ...

in 1948 and the Turkish Military College in 1964. A high school in his home town is named for him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sayin, Hulusi 1926 births 1991 deaths Turkish Army generals Assassinated Turkish people People from Elazığ Turkish Military Academy alumni Army War College (Turkey) alumni JİTEM personnel Turkish Gendarmerie personnel