Bahtiyar Aydın

Bahtiyar Aydın (1946 – 22 October 1993) was a Turkish general. He was a regional commander in the Turkish Gendarmerie in Lice, Turkey in southeastern Turkey when he was assassinated by a sniper using a Kanas rifle. Officially a victim of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) (which denied responsibility), his death has long been considered suspicious. He was said to have "close relations with the public" and not to approve of the extrajudicial violence which was commonly used by the Turkish military in south-eastern Turkey at the time.