 The relationship came into existence after the National Security Council (NSC) posited the need for the marshaling of the nation's resources to combat the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).The scandal surfaced with a car-truck collision on 3 November 1996, near Susurluk, in the province of Balıkesir.The victims included the deputy chief of the Istanbul Police Department, a Member of Parliament, and Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Grey Wolves and a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (Turkey) (MİT), who was on Interpol's red list at the time of his death.