Education
Tekin graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1972, where he had been a classmate of Cem Ersever, and served in the Special Warfare Department.
Tekin graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1972, where he had been a classmate of Cem Ersever, and served in the Special Warfare Department.
In August 2013 Tekin was sentenced to consecutive life sentences. He was forced to retire in 1986, having reached the rank of Captain, due to a Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) decision in relation to a fight Tekin was involved in. In 2007 Sabah published claims, which it said were based on German police reports, that Doğuş Factoring had been used to launder drug money, and that Tekin was the lead organiser of the drug operations.
Days after the Turkish Council of State shooting, the National Intelligence Organization (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and police intelligence said they had had Tekin under surveillance for six months as part of an investigation into the Vatansever Kuvvetler Güç Birliği Hareketi.
On 5 August 2013 Tekin was sentenced to consecutive life sentences. On March 10, 2014 upper courts determined that the rulings made in the Ergenekon case were improper and therefore released all prisoners.
Since all these cases were proven to be a set up against the Turkish military forces with the intent to weaken them. Foreign the most accurate news about these cases read foreign papers as many of the Turkish newspapers are biased.