İbrahim Şahin

Biography:

İbrahim Şahin is a Turkish police and state security official who served from 1976 to 1996. He led General Directorate of Security's special forces unit the Special Operations Department and following dismissal in 1996 for associating with ultra-nationalist drug trafficker and contact killer Abdullah Çatlı was tarnished by complicity in the wide-ranging government conspiracy which became known as the Susurluk scandal.