Levent Ersöz
[2] He was considered a key defendant in the Ergenekon trials, and on 5 August 2013 was sentenced to 22 years and six months.[5] A trial charging Ersöz with the death of Turkish President Turgut Özal in 1993 began in September 2013.[7] Prosecutors have accused Ersöz of being behind the 2001 assassination of Diyarbakır Police Chief Gaffar Okkan and a 2006 attack on Faruk Çelik,[8] and of having had a role in the 1993 death of President Turgut Özal.[9] The prosecution has shown a video of Ersöz talking to Bedrettin Dalan in 2004, saying "You are number three.[11] Shots were fired into the ceiling during a confrontation between the would-be assassin and gendarmes guarding Ersöz' room.