[3] Mehmet Eymür has been quoted as saying "Tarık Ümit, because of the way he was built, was difficult to manage.
I personally heard from him that he was assigned the murders of Savaş Buldan, Hacı Karay and Adnan Yıldırım.
"[4] According to Fikri Sağlar, Ümit was joint shareholder of the First Merchant Bank in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (founded 1993), with Kayzer Mahmood Butt, the private office manager of Saudi Prince Faisal.
[4] Eymür reportedly told Ümit's daughter, Hande Birinci, that her father worked with Korkut Eken (an adviser to Mehmet Ağar) on the side and that he was assassinated by Ağar's men after he became disgusted by their corruption.
[7][8] According to mob boss Sedat Peker speaking in 2011, Ümit was "kidnapped in retaliation for Yeşil having kidnapped two Iranian drug dealers [Iranian spies Lazım Esmaeili and Askar Simitko, abducted in January 1995 in Istanbul at the time.