Revision of Veli Küçük
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subtitle | Turkish general | Turkish general and statesperson (born 1944) |
description | — | Veli Küçük is a retired Turkish brigadier-general. He is thought to be the founder of the JİTEM intelligence arm of the Turkish Gendarmerie, and is accused by the Turkish government of being the head of the Ergenekon organization, based on testimony by Tuncay Güney. He was arrested in January 2008, and on 5 August 2013, sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Later, in 2019, those sentences were overturned. |
entity_type | — | person |