Abdülkadir Aygan

Abdülkadir Aygan (born Uzunhıdır, Suruç, Şanlıurfa Province, 1958 ) is a former member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and of the Turkish Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit. He has been described as "the most well-known among PKK members turned informants". He is a refugee in Sweden since 2001, where he has been cooperating with prosecutors in the Ergenekon trials.

Life Aygan joined the PKK in 1977. He had previously been shot in clashes with ultranationalists, and been visited in hospital by Abdullah Öcalan, a relative of his. He was captured in 1980, and released after 18 months. During military service on Cyprus in 1982, he fled, eventually to Germany and then Syria. From 1983 to 1985 he acted as a PKK courier in northern Iraq. After witnessing the brutal execution of a suspected spy, he fled the PKK and surrendered to the Turkish military.

Aygan resigned on 12 September 2001, and fled to Sweden, where he was granted asylum with his family. and Uğur Mumcu.