Hüseyin Çapkın
Hüseyin Çapkın (born 1951) is a Turkish former police chief who led Istanbul Province. He was born in Akyurt, Tire, İzmir, to a farming family. He joined the Police College in 1965 and graduated from the Police Academy in 1971 as a police sergeant. He has two master’s degrees: one on juvenile delinquency from TODAİE and another on public management from the Ankara Academy of Economy and Commerce; he also holds an English language diploma.
His career started in Balıkesir in 1971, then he worked in Ankara Province (1975–1984). He served as police chief in Yozgat, Mersin, Antalya, Gaziantep, Manisa, Adana, and Bursa before becoming police chief of İzmir in 2006. On June 29, 2009, he became police chief of Istanbul. On May 13, 2010, he was appointed governor of Iğdır, but returned to Istanbul as police chief on May 29, 2010. He earned praise for catching a long-sought killer of a decapitated girl soon after taking charge in Istanbul.
Çapkın was dismissed as Istanbul Police Chief on December 19, 2013 amid a bribery probe. On August 30, 2016, he was detained at his home in Çeşme and transferred to Istanbul, accused of belonging to a terror organization led by Fetullah Gülen.
He married Nurten Çapkın in 1971, and they have two daughters.
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