İhsan Hakan also known as Mustafa Deniz, was a PKK defector who was killed, according to some as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of general Eşref Bitlis

Esref Bitlis

Eşref Bitlis was a general in the Turkish Gendarmerie, who died in a mysterious plane crash.-Early life and career:He was born 1933 in the eastern Anatolian city of Malatya, Turkey. He attended the Turkish Military Academy, finishing it in 1952 in the rank of a Lieutenant...

, in a mysterious plane crash.

A so-called "repentant militant" (i.e., defector of the PKK) and PKK informer, Hakan was given the code name "Mustafa Deniz" and assumed a new existence. In June 1993 he co-founded an Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

-based film and video company.

On 1 November 1993 he disappeared, and on 4 November his corpse was found in the vicinity of Avcılar Village of Polatlı District of Ankara, shot dead by a bullet to his head, while the bodies of gendarmerie commander Cem Ersever and his girlfriend Nevval Boz

Nevval Boz

Nevval Boz was a Turkish woman who was killed, according to some as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of general Eşref Bitlis, who died in a mysterious plane crash....

were found elsewhere.