İbrahim Şahin

İbrahim Şahin (born 1956) is a Turkish Ultranationalist and co conspirator in the murder of the Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink. He led General Directorate of Security's special forces unit, the Special Operations Department (Turkish: Özel Harekat Dairesi) 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. The event, which began with the November 1996 car crash which killed Çatlı and other prominent individuals, resulted in Şahin's arrest and subsequent acquittal. His career, however, was effectively ended, and there were additional weapons-related charges in 1999, with a six-year prison term imposed in 2001. In 2008 he suffered a memory-impairing traffic accident and, in 2009, was among 37 highly placed officials named in the government investigation of deep state organization Ergenekon.

A native of the Anatolian city of Tokat, the capital of Tokat Province, İbrahim Şahin began his police career at the age of 20, following graduation from the police academy in 1976. Holding the rank of assistant superintendent, he was assigned to the police unit in another provincial capital, Sinop. In 1978, he fulfilled his military duties in Erzurum and the Isparta Commando School and four years later, in 1982, joined the police force of yet another provincial capital, Bitlis, in Eastern Anatolia. Later that year he transferred to the newly formed Special Operations Department and completed a course in Special Operations from the Turkish General Staff's Special Warfare Department (Turkish: Özel Harp Dairesi).

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