Cemal Temizöz
Cemal Temizöz is a Turkish retired colonel. He was tried at the Şırnak death well trials and the Sledgehammer trials, which he received an amnesty for both.
Life
Temizöz graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1979. He served in Cizre between 1993-1995 and carried out successful operations on erasing PKK from Cizre. After his duty in Cizre, he commanded Aydın First Gendarmerie Education Battalion. Later, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and commanded Tekirdağ Provincial Gendarmerie Command. After that, he rose to the rank of colonel and commanded Denizli Provincial Gendarmerie Command. In January 2006, he was assigned for the investigation to be held in Haydarpaşa GATA. During the investigation, he found out patient information of relatives of Land Forces Commander Yaşar Büyükanıt was revealed by a Gülen movement member. Later, he commanded Kayseri Provincial General Command. While in Kayseri, he detected 3 non-commissioned officers are working for the Gülen Movement. Their activities included giving out some documents to the movement and loading forged documents to the unit commander's computer. Temizöz retired in 2010.Şırnak death well trials
Temizöz was detained on 23 March 2009 for the "perpetrator unknown" murders after testimonies of two secret witnesses, "Tükenmez Kalem" and "Sokak Lambası", and an open witness, Mehmet Nuri Binzet. All three later withdrew their testimonies, with Binzet saying that he hated his family for making him a village guard and Colonel Cemal Temizöz for giving consent" and that he heard many incidents from different people and threw them on Kamil Atağ and his son as well as Cemal Temizöz.After excavations in Cizre, 13 pieces of bones were found. After tests done in forensic medicine, it turned out that all these were animal bones.
Temizöz was released on 12 September 2014 and received an amnesty for the death well case on 5 November 2015.