Gaffar Okkan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gaffar Okkan
Occupation	Police Officer
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1952(1952-02-24)
Age	72
Birthplace	Hendek
Country	Turkey
Birth City	Sakarya Province
Horoscope	Aquarius

Gaffar Okkan Biography

Gaffar Okkan is one of the most popular and richest Police Officer who was born on February 24, 1952 in Hendek, Sakarya Province, Turkey. Ali Gaffar Okkan was born in Hendek, Sakarya Province in 1952. He graduated from the Police College on September 30 1970. He also was a student at an academy called the Police Academy in Ankara. He graduated on September 29, 1973.

Ali Gaffar Okkan (1952 – January 24 2001) was an Turkish police chief who was killed by ambush Diyarbakir the southeastern region of Turkey.

The investigation culminated with the apprehension of two suspects who were later tried before Diyarbakır’s 5th High Criminal Court and, in 2010, found guilty of involvement in the assassination. The court further stated that the attack was prepared a long time before by professional killers and that the planners as well as their connection abroad could not be traced back.

Following the assassination, many families in Diyarbakır named their newborn sons Ali Gaffar or Gaffar Okkan, after their city’s much-beloved public figure. In 2011, 101 namesake boys from Diyarbakır visited Okkan’s grave in Hendek to pay respect to him in a memorial ceremony in presence of Okkan’s wife and daughter on the 10th anniversary of his death as part of a project called “Journey of Hearts: Martyr Ali Gaffar Okkan, A Story of Brotherhood”.

On the 24th of January in the 24th of January, Gaffar Okkan arrived at his workplace to attend an interview with Provincial Governor Cemil Serbiahadli. Around 17:40 local while he was traveling in his official vehicle accompanied by police vehicles The convoy was surrounded by unknown gunmen at an area less than one kilometer (1,100 yards) from the office in downtown At Sezai Karakoc Boulevard which runs between Meat & Fish Corp. (Turkish: Et ve Balik Kurumu) building and Eflatun Park. The gunmen opened fire using long-barrel guns and killed Okkan. The shooting killed three policemen on the scene, and two more officers died in the hospital. Four officers were injured during the assault. The gunmen opened the doors of the car owned by Okkan and fired a few shots at point-blank range to make sure of his demise. There was no cell phone communications between the gunmen and the gunmen, who fled quickly.

Gaffar Okkan Net Worth

Gaffar Okkan is one of the richest Police Officer from Turkey. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gaffar Okkan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Okkan was appointed in the position assistant inspector (Turkish: Komiser yardimcisi) to Izmir Police Directorate, where he held various positions until he was promoted to Superintendent (Turkish Emniyet amiri) after being appointed to Sanliurfa at the end of 1983. He was appointed Chief Superintendent (Turkish: Sube amiri) in the year 1985. In 1985, Okkan was promoted to Eskisehir in the position in the General Directorate of Security. He was elevated into the position of assistant commissioner (Turkish: Emniyet Mudur Yardimcisi or 2. Sinif Emniyet Mduru) in 1992. On the 6th of December 1993, Okkan finally became Commissioner (Turkish 1. Sinif Emniyet Muduru) which is the second highest post in the hierarchy of the police department in Turkey and was elected as the Police Chief in Kars Province, eastern Turkey.

His main focus was on the illegal pro-Islamic, fundamentalist Kurdish Hezbollah that is not associated with the group it is named after in Lebanon. The violent acts committed by Kurdish Hezbollah targeted directly towards the group’s enemies which included PKK sympathisers. On the 17th of January 2000, Kurdish Hezbollah’s leader , Huseyin Velioglu was murdered in his home in Beykoz, Istanbul during a search by police. Okkan was a key player in the crackdown on the Kurdish Hezbollah that resulted in hundreds of its members were detained, as well as more than 150 corpses of murder victims were discovered throughout the nation. He identified that several murders that were not solved had been perpetrated by rebels from Hezbollah rather than security forces.

During the Ergenekon trials in August 2008, a former member of PKK, who became a turned-informant, testified that JİTEM (for Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism), a secret illegal unit formed under the gendarmerie, had carried out the 2001 assassination. He gave the rationale that JİTEM could operate in the region easily before Okkan’s appointment. He added that Kurdish Hezbollah had never attacked a state official before, even though they had been investigated by Okkan. In 2011, a police officer, who was wounded in the 2001 attack as one of Okkan’s guards, also suspected JİTEM of staging the assassination.

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Who is Gaffar Okkan Dating?

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Gaffar Ranked on the list of most popular Police Officer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Turkey. Gaffar Okkan celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.