Mustafa Levent Göktaş (born June 8, 1959) is a Turkish colonel, who took part in the 1999 operation to catch

Abdullah Öcalan Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from ...

, the leader of the Kurdish terrorist organization

PKK The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurds, Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla warfare, guerrilla List of guerrilla movements, movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based ...

, designated as a terrorist organisation in Turkey. In January 2009, Göktaş was detained in the

Ergenekon investigation Ergenekon () was the name given to an alleged clandestine, secular Ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist organization in Turkey with possible ties to members of the country's Turkish Armed Forces, military and Law enforcement in Turkey, security ...

. Göktaş was released on 10 March 2014, along with other Ergenekon defendants. He is a member of the Special Forces Command ( tr, Özel Kuvvetler Komutanlığı); an elite

special forces Special forces and special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations. NATO has defined special operations as "military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, selected, trained and equip ...

unit.

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https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm 1959 births People from Tokat Turkish Military Academy alumni Turkish Army officers Living people Inmates of Silivri Prison {{turkey-bio-stub