Tarık Ümit (22 April 1947 in

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) was a Turkish intelligence official in the

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(MIT). He was kidnapped and murdered in March 1995.

Career

After his father died, Ümit went to live in Germany to live with his uncle, returning to Turkey in 1968. He joined MIT in 1978, and in the interim is alleged to have associated with mob boss

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has been quoted as saying "Tarık Ümit, because of the way he was built, was difficult to manage. He was angry; he liked a fight. He worked at the MİT Presidency and also for the police force under orders from

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. He was given a green passport, fake IDs and fake license plates while he worked for the police force. They used him to do some of their executions. I personally heard from him that he was assigned the murders of Savaş Buldan,

Hacı Karay Hacı Karay (1950 – June 1994) was a Turkish human rights activist of Kurdish descent. He was born in Yüksekova, Hakkari, to Fehim Karay (father). On 13 February 1993, he participated in the action of closing shops in Yüksekova in support ...

and Adnan Yıldırım."

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, 5 December 2011
Eymür claims MİT agent had 40 person hit list
According to

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, Ümit was joint shareholder of the First Merchant Bank in the

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(founded 1993), with Kayzer Mahmood Butt, the private office manager of Saudi Prince Faisal.

Death

According to Ayhan Çarkın, Ümit was killed by police special operations officers and buried in

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(Çarkın says he helped transport the body). Former MIT official

has said that Ümit was killed because he had shown Eymür a "death list" of 40 names, some of whom (such as

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) had already been assassinated, and that prior to Ümit's disappearance Ümit had been questioned by

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. Eymür reportedly told Ümit's daughter, Hande Birinci, that her father worked with

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(an adviser to

) on the side and that he was assassinated by Ağar's men after he became disgusted by their corruption. According to mob boss Sedat Peker speaking in 2011, Ümit was "kidnapped in retaliation for Yeşil having kidnapped two Iranian drug dealers ranian spies Lazım Esmaeili and Askar Simitko">Lazım_Esmaeili.html" ;"title="ranian spies Lazım Esmaeili">ranian spies Lazım Esmaeili and Askar Simitko, abducted in January 1995 in Istanbul at the time."

, 3 November 2011
‘Shady gang inside state was behind 1990s Kurdish businessmen’s assassinations’
,

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