Hikmet Sevcan, the owner of Sevcan Hotel, whose name was mentioned in the reports of Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation (Mit) among the participants of the fathers' meeting, and who Sedat Peker mentioned in his videos that he was wanted with a red bulletin for a long time due to drug trafficking, died.
Hikmet Sevcan, who died at the age of 81, whose funeral will be buried in the family cemetery in Ataköy, Istanbul after the noon prayers tomorrow, and who also has a hospital in Gaziantep, said in an interview he gave in the past years, "I am not involved in the Mafia, I am not involved in dark affairs, these are all the work of 12 September. The thing I am most against is drugs. If the police come out one day and say that I did this drug business, I am ready to go back inside.''
In addition to his hotel investments in Istanbul, he also has a hospital in Gaziantep, has investments in Bulgaria, and is the owner of the facility named Sevcan Hotel in Florya, Istanbul, hikmet sevcan was mentioned as follows in Sedat Peker's video:
''He is known in the underworld as Zaza Hikmet . He is a name wanted by Interpol with a red bulletin for drug trafficking for a long time. It is alleged that when Süleyman Soylu, the Minister of Interior, came to Istanbul, he went to Zaza Hikmet's office in his factory in İkitelli and they came together.''
Born in 1943 in Gaziantep-Kilis, Hikmet Sevcan, whose name was mentioned as one of the 15 names in the underworld who participated in the Fathers' Meeting organised in 1980 and mentioned in MIT reports, said in an interview in 2016: "I have no criminal record since my childhood, I got it from the prosecutor's office and had it stamped by a notary public. I have no criminal record since my childhood. The police have written on the GBT every incident that every newspaper writes about Varan1, Varan2 because I was involved in these mattress tenders. I do not have the slightest criminal record, whether it is for drugs or any other disgraceful incident.''
In 1943, Hikmet Sevcan who opened his eyes to life in Kilis, which was then connected to Gaziantep, started his education life in Gaziantep, moved to Istanbul at an early age, and was interested in many business areas. After completing secondary and high school in Istanbul, Hikmet Sevcan, who started his business life in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, made many investments in Gaziantep and its surroundings where he was born with the name Sevcan Hotel which is a 5-star hotel chain.
