Mahmut Yıldırım

Mahmut Yıldırım
Born
Mahmut Yıldırım

(1953-05-03) 3 May 1953
Yenidal, Bingöl, Turkey
Disappeared1998
Damascus, Syria
Other namesAhmet Demir
Yeşil (from Turkish, meaning "green")
CitizenshipTurkey

Mahmut Yıldırım (born 3 May 1953) is a Turkish counter-guerrilla and spy of Zaza origin. Yildirim, who identified himself to the public as Ahmet Demir but was called by the code-name Yeşil among intelligence, disappeared in 1998. In 1999, he was the subject of an Interpol red notice. In 2013, security guard Korkut Eken claimed that he was still alive. Among the murders he is accused of is that of Cem Ersever in 1993.