Where Silence Ends, Truth Begins
Alp Tufan is more than an author; he is a custodian of secrets passed down through generations. Born into a lineage intertwined with the very fabric of the Turkish state's evolution, his life has been a silent testament to events hidden from public view. Trained by masters in various disciplines, including his father, Orhan Pertev Tufan, Alp has become a multidimensional specialist, poised to unveil truths long kept in the shadows.
The Hidden Legacy of Alp Tufan
Alp Tufan
Behind the Tufan name lies a lineage that predates modern republics, a heritage embedded not only in official service but in unspeakable continuity — across empires, across centuries. Some of this legacy was written in law, much of it in silence. In whispered transmissions and withheld documents, the knowledge passed down carried more than information — it carried responsibility. And Alp inherited it all.
From early on, he was aware that his life would not follow a public path. Operating in the liminal space between intelligence, diplomacy, and historical preservation, he was forced to assume roles, masks, and disappearances. Some know him by name, others by code. His silence was not cowardice — it was part of the design.
The Code of the Tufans is not a literary work born of imagination. It is the distillation of decades of observation, encrypted testimonies, and first-hand experience in the orbit of global power. The publication of this material was never a question of timing — it was a question of survival. Now, as tides shift and protections thin, Alp Tufan has chosen to speak.
This is not a book to be merely read. It is a transmission. A key to structures hidden in plain sight, designed to outlive regimes and outmaneuver scrutiny. You do not just turn pages — you cross thresholds.
The Lineage Behind the Code
- Ethem Pertev (1872 - 1920)
Ethem Pertev (Pasha) was a senior Ottoman official and a distinguished member of the Committee of Union and Progress as well as the Special Organization (Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa). A descendant of Müşir Pertev Sait Pasha—the Empire’s first Minister of the Interior—he served on several key fronts, including the Balkans, Çanakkale alongside Cemal Pasha and Atatürk, the Syrian and Canal campaigns, and the Caucasus. In 1916, Talat Pasha appointed him undersecretary to the German Embassy in Berlin, a role that preceded his final posting as Ottoman Ambassador. He was known for his discreet influence and political depth, and maintained a close relationship with Belkıs Hanım, the first wife of diplomat Ethem Menemencioğlu. Ethem Pertev died suddenly in February 1920 under suspicious circumstances, shortly after the fall of the Empire. 
- Galip Ceylani ( 1906 - 1954)
Galip Ceylani, Ethem Pertev’s son, became one of the most influential figures in post-imperial Turkey’s commercial and strategic ties with Nazi Germany. After settling in Berlin, he became the official representative of major German and Swiss firms—such as Mannesmann, Büssing, and Oerlikon—facilitating exports of chrome and other critical resources to Hitler’s regime. He also supplied key defense equipment to the Turkish Armed Forces, and maintained close contact with senior German officials, including Ambassador Franz von Papen and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
His wife, Melahat Hanım, was the daughter of Fuat Aktan Bey, the Romanian Consul General in Constanța. From the 1930s onward, she became a leading figure in Turkish high society. Galip Bey also supported leading artists of his time, such as Füreya Koral and Suat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, and continued the close friendship with Belkıs Hanım—once intimately connected with his father.
In the summer of 1954, while traveling with his family through the French Riviera and the Alps, their Studebaker brand car plunged off a cliff near the Swiss border. Galip, his wife Melahat, their only son Cem, his mother, and their driver all perished. The incident sparked widespread speculation, with many seeing it as a covert elimination tied to NATO’s restructuring of Turkish mobilization and intelligence systems.
The gravity of his role was later echoed in a private remark shared by industrialist Vehbi Koç:
“If Galip Bey had been alive, building these empires would have been nearly impossible.”
- Melek Tufan (1900 – 1991)
Mükerrem Melek Tufan, daughter of Ethem Pertev Pasha and sister of Galip Ceylani, was the matriarch of a legacy rooted in service, sacrifice, and silent resistance. After her father’s sudden death in 1920, she married Hacı Mustafa Vural, a reputable gold merchant in Konya. During the Delibaş Mehmet uprising of 1921, she risked her life by hiding gendarmerie officers in her attic—an act of courage that earned her a personal visit from Refet Bele Pasha. She gave her only gold to her brother Galip for his journey to Germany—a farewell that would last decades.
Refusing her husband’s surname after the 1935 Surname Law, she proudly chose “Tufan” for herself and her children, honoring her father’s legacy. Among her four children was Agricultural Engineer Orhan Pertev Tufan, father of Alp Tufan. In later years, her waterfront apartment in Yeniköy became a discreet meeting place for statesmen, intellectuals, and foreign guests.
One of her most trusted relatives was her cousin, Şevket Yener Bey—son of Doctor Colonel Galip Pertev Bey. A former head of real estate at the PTT and a strategic figure with ties to military intelligence, Şevket Bey was a close personal friend of industrialist Vehbi Koç. Their weekly meetings took place at the Military Officers’ Clubs in Kalender and Sarıyer, followed by long walks along the Sarıyer shoreline. Şevket Bey often visited Melek Hanım to share updates on national affairs and confidential matters, including those involving senior generals and members of the Encümeni Daniş.
Until her death in 1991, Melek Hanım carried the silent grief of losing both her sons, convinced they had been poisoned—just as her father had been. Though her suspicions were dismissed as maternal sorrow, the elders of the family never questioned her intuition.
- Dr. Mehmet Raif Tufan (1925 - July 15, 1981)
Dr. Mehmet Raif Tufan, the eldest son of Mükerrem Melek Tufan and grandson of Ethem Pertev Pasha, was a physician trained at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. A bachelor with no children, he lived his entire life alongside his mother in their family’s historic Yeniköy waterfront home. Known for his dignified manner and financial success, he represented his mother in all international inheritance matters after the lifting of legal injunctions on the Ceylani estate. Acting as the family’s sole legal proxy, he completed complex inheritance procedures with French and Swiss authorities.
His death on July 15, 1981, remains one of the most painful and suspicious episodes in the family’s history. While vacationing in Antalya with his assistant, he suddenly fell ill, returned to Istanbul, and collapsed shortly after arriving home. Despite efforts to hospitalize him, he passed away within hours. His mother, Melek Tufan, devastated and certain of foul play, repeated through tears:
“They poisoned my son.”
The family quietly suspected he had been eliminated, not through open violence but through poisoning—just as had allegedly happened to his grandfather, Ethem Pertev. According to family accounts, the poisoning theory emerged from those close to him, including Rahime Abla, a family nurse, who later fled to London and never returned. Dr. Tufan’s death marked the beginning of what was seen as a calculated dismantling of the family line and its inheritance routes extending into Switzerland and Germany.
To this day, his legacy stands as a symbol of loyalty, discretion, and an unresolved silence embedded deep within the Tufan family’s memory.
- Orhan Pertev Tufan (1930 – February 7, 1983)
Orhan Pertev Tufan, father of Alp Tufan, the youngest son of Mükerrem Melek Tufan and grandson of Ethem Pertev Pasha, was raised with a profound sense of inherited duty. After completing his university education in Paris, he returned to Turkey and began his official career as an agricultural engineer. Holding a government post, he traveled extensively across Anatolia while simultaneously becoming involved in one of the Republic’s most secretive operations.
In the post–World War II years, prior to Turkey’s accession to NATO, he was discreetly selected as one of the few founding members of the Special Bureau—a highly confidential structure that would later evolve into the Seferberlik Tetkik Kurulu, Turkey’s official Mobilization Inspection Board. However, it is important to clarify that while the Seferberlik Tetkik Kurulu was a legitimate institution, Gladio referred to the broader, unofficial stay-behind network operating across NATO countries. Orhan Tufan was deeply involved in shaping the Turkish dimension of this network.
He undertook foreign missions on behalf of the Turkish state, acting as a silent envoy in advance of official diplomatic visits. His assignments reflected an unwavering loyalty to state continuity and strategic sovereignty.
Publicly, he was known as a distinguished philatelist and a registered member of the International Federation of Stamp Dealers Associations (IFSDA). His office in Istanbul was located in the historic Suriye Passage, directly across from the Soviet Consulate—a spatial irony mirrored in From Russia with Love, where James Bond’s Istanbul contact operated from a similarly placed location.
Following the death of his brother, Dr. Mehmet Raif Tufan, in 1981, Orhan Pertev Tufan assumed full responsibility for the family’s strategic and financial legacy, particularly its long-standing connections in Switzerland and Germany.
He also played an active role in the planning and preparation of the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation. In the wake of the U.S. arms embargo that followed the operation, ideological fractures within Turkey’s stay-behind structure deepened. A confidential visit to Moscow marked a turning point. Soon after, one of his closest confidants, respected journalist Abdi İpekçi, was assassinated not to send a message—but because of what he knew. The killing served as both a silencing act and a brutal warning to others with knowledge of the same secrets.
By 1980, internal tensions had reached a breaking point. In early 1981, as Turkey navigated the aftermath of the 1980 military coup, a new wave of violence erupted: on February 6, 1981, Deputy Police Chief Mahmut Dikler was martyred in a terrorist attack. Only months later, Orhan’s older brother Dr. Raif Tufan died under suspicious circumstances—marking the beginning of a tragic spiral.
Two years after his brother’s death, on February 7, 1983, Orhan Pertev Tufan also passed away abruptly and under conditions the family never accepted as natural.
He passed quietly, but left behind layers of buried history—sealed in archives, encoded in diplomacy, and whispered within the lineage of a family shaped by both service and sacrifice.
- Alp Tufan August 25, 1965 - Present day
Born on August 25, 1965, in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Alp Tufan lost his father, Orhan Pertev Tufan—one of the founding figures of Turkey’s covert mobilization infrastructure during the early Cold War—at the age of 17. His father’s sudden illness, suspected to be the result of poisoning similar to that which befell other family members, marked a new phase in the multigenerational elimination campaign targeting the Tufan family. It would eventually become clear that this plan was not orchestrated by any single state, but rather by a deeply embedded and globally organized structure known as the International Global Dark Consortium.
This structure had infiltrated intelligence agencies, banking systems, judicial bodies, ecclesiastical authorities, Christian orders, political cadres, and strategic institutions through Masonic networks, penetrating the internal mechanisms of many seemingly rival nations. Crimes committed by this network were attributed to official institutions, while the real perpetrators skillfully concealed their tracks. Victims were being struck down not by foreign enemies, but by the hands of their own states from within.
While Orhan Pertev Tufan was alive, he had meticulously planned Alp’s education in Lausanne, opened bank accounts in Switzerland, and secured his son’s future abroad. However, the true legacy Alp was to inherit only emerged after his father’s death—an inheritance not only material in scale but cosmic in nature. This legacy included wartime assets of extraordinary value, such as gold-indexed bearer bonds, and a level of cosmic power capable of influencing the balance of nations.
It comes as no surprise, then, that this power became a target. The “missing Nazi gold,” long discussed in international circles and portrayed in fiction and documentaries, was in fact the very legacy that had been passed down to Alp Tufan. Even the popular 2006 Turkish series Sağır Oda (The Deaf Room) incorporated this reality into its narrative, drawing direct inspiration from his life.
In 1985, in an operation carried out in Zurich, Switzerland, a false identity was substituted in Alp’s place. This imposter gained access to the vaults and seized the inheritance. Meanwhile, the real Alp Tufan was issued a travel ban without justification, kept under surveillance, and cut off from international access. The same consortium that orchestrated this also targeted other members of his family—some were killed in staged accidents, others were poisoned. The lineage of persecution traced back to the mysterious death of his grandfather, Ethem Pertev Bey, in 1920.
Between 1993 and 1995, Alp Tufan carried out a top-secret operation—authorized by Turkey’s National Security Council (MGK)—together with the team that had established and continues to lead modern Russia. The operation resulted in the acquisition of high-value weapon systems for the Turkish Armed Forces. These systems played a decisive role in operations such as Çelik and Balyoz in Northern Iraq. Despite his critical contribution, Alp’s name was deliberately kept out of official recognition, and the profits and credit for this historic transaction were taken from him using forged documents.
For years, Alp remained loyal to the state and refrained from public confrontation. Yet over time, he was deliberately exposed to someone with a contagious illness and was ultimately diagnosed with tuberculosis—a method of incapacitation reminiscent of the poisoning that had targeted his father. This illness weakened him physically while his reputation was simultaneously undermined.
In 2009, the Seferberlik Tetkik Kurulu’s (Special Warfare Unit) cosmic archive rooms in Ankara were raided, and documents belonging to Alp Tufan’s family were seized. In parallel, attempts were made to confiscate original documents in Alp’s possession, accompanied by coordinated pressure and harassment to destroy key evidence. In response, Alp filed a formal complaint to the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) via secure institutional channels, while strictly preserving the confidentiality of state secrets. After receiving no response for ten years, he made the contents of his message public.
Following his detention in 2010 and deep disappointment with diplomatic silence, Alp decided to reveal his identity to the public. Using the alias “Aras Dağlı,” he began sharing critical disclosures on social media and through Periscope broadcasts.
In 2018, after returning from Moscow, he was abducted and taken to a black site known as “the Farm.” However, thanks to long-standing diplomatic ties with the Russian Federation, their direct intervention secured his release. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested again; he was released at the first hearing and later acquitted. Nonetheless, the campaign of defamation and repression against him did not cease.
Today, Alp Tufan resides in Bodrum, living modestly yet defiantly. He has authored eight books—his latest, The Code of the Tufans, has been published in English and is now available worldwide. With this book, no strategic institution, court of law, Vatican entity, Swiss or German banking authority, intelligence service, political figure, or custodian of secret knowledge can claim ignorance. Silence is now complicity.
Because the International Global Dark Consortium has not only targeted Alp Tufan, but also corrupted global banking networks, intelligence and judiciary systems, ecclesiastical hierarchies, statesmen, and politicians alike—manipulating them to serve its own hidden agenda. Those who remain silent in the face of this truth share in the moral responsibility.
This biography is not merely the story of one man, but the living testimony of a suppressed truth, a stolen legacy, and a lineage that stands as witness to history.
In Alp Tufan’s own words:
“They created a fake version of me to erase the real one. But history always finds a way to remember the truth.”