Mustafa_Levent_Göktaş

Mustafa Levent Göktaş

Mustafa Levent Göktaş

Turkish colonel (born 1959)

Mustafa Levent Göktaş (born June 8, 1959[1]) is a Turkish colonel, who took part in the 1999 operation to catch Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK, designated as a terrorist organisation in Turkey. In January 2009, Göktaş was detained in the Ergenekon investigation.[2] Göktaş was released on 10 March 2014, along with other Ergenekon defendants.

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He is a member of the Special Forces Command (Turkish: Özel Kuvvetler Komutanlığı); an elite special forces unit.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Ergenekon indictments
  2. [2]
    Yavuz, Ercan (2009-01-10). "Key colonel in Öcalan's capture among detainees". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  3. [3]
    "9 muvazzaf subay adliyede sorgulanıyor". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 2009-01-09. Retrieved 2009-01-09.

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