Mehmet Ozberk

Mehmet Ozberk in 1990

Mehmet Ozberk in 2022

**Mehmet Ozberk** (Turkish: **Mehmet Özberk**), also known by his code-name **Perseus**, is a legend in the eyes of both intelligence community and the criminal underworld. A former KGB agent, he grew disillusioned with Marxism, and its cousin Communism, and sought to destroy it at all costs. In fact, it is commonly known amongst the members of The Ascendancy that he had a hand in destroying the Soviet Union.

## Biography

### Early life and KGB career

Mehmet was born in Turkey, but grew up in the Soviet Union for most of his life. From the 1960s to around 1981, the man was considered an avid supporter of the Soviet Union and idolized various Soviet leaders, including Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and many others.

It was this patriotism that led him to join the KGB around 1973, where he was one of the prominent KGB agents. At one point, he was recruited as part of Operation Tsikada by its creator, Anatoly Barkov.

### Disillusionment and creating Red Rock

Around the 1980s, Mehmet began to be disillusioned with the grandeur of Communism, beginning to see it as a "cancer" that was infecting everything and everyone, and one of the largest sources of injustice. In response, he secretly hijacked control of Operation Tsikada, and used turned the project against the Soviet Union, though he went to great lengths to conceal everything from the USSR, and the Western nations.

Because his goals were a well-kept secret, everyone in the West assumed he was still a member of the Soviet Union and continued to regard him as such.

### Operation Bronze Monument

As part of his plan to remove an "obstacle"-the United States of America-in his mission against the Soviet Union, Ozberk began plotting a seemingly "suicidal" scheme to steal nukes from the United States of America, using Tsikada sleeper agents deployed to the United States, codenamed Operation Bronze Monument.

However, the plan was threatened when one of his key agents, a KGB agent and Tsikada operative named Vladimira Makarova, was compromised and captured by the American CIA. The CIA, in an attempt to hunt down and kill Anatoly Barkov, attempted to convert Makarova into a CIA asset named "Bell" via memory modification, brainwashing and mind control, but this failed when Makarova recovered enough of her memories to rebel against the CIA and escape back to Tsikada.

Following Makarova's return to Tsikada, Ozberk gave her the order to detonate the stolen nukes, but Makarova had second thoughts and convinced Ozberk to instead authorize a massive disinformation campaign against the Americans, creating a false narrative in which the CIA agents were actually domestic terrorists out to escalate the Cold War into a Third World War.

### Operation Red Whistle

Ozberk was skeptical at first, but later reluctantly allowed the operation to commence. Much to Ozberk's surprise, the op, codenamed Red Whistle, was a huge success, with millions worldwide fooled into believing that the CIA agents that had captured Bell were actually rogue operatives that committed acts of terrorism to escalate the Cold War into World War III, leaving to a massive breakdown in relations between America and other nations for years.

Surprisingly, this incident, as well as the disinformation campaign, wound up being in Ozberk's benefit, as he saw Makarova's capture by the CIA as proof that Barkov couldn't be trusted with running Tsikada, holding Barkov responsible for the entire debacle with the CIA. Henceforth, after a debrief and a six-month recuperation process, Ozberk personally gave Makarova the new mission of terminating Barkov. Once Barkov was eliminated, Ozberk revealed his intentions to create a "new world from the old."

### Becoming Turkish intelligence director

Sometime after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Ozberk became the head of Turkish National Intelligence.

### Creating The Ascendancy

Years later, in 2014, Ozberk suffered a series of injustices that he believed were intentionally perpetrated by corrupt members of the Turkish government itself. They led him to believe that Turkey was being "enslaved" by an "outdated ideology" that needed to be reformed. With that in mind, he created The Ascendancy, a syndicate of Turkish right-wing politicians and Turkish ex-military officers, reformed ex-criminal gangsters turned vigilantes, ex-law enforcement and former intelligence agents, alongside his close friend and former Turkish mobster Nihat Aydin.

Two years later, Aydin died and Ozberk took over as the head of The Ascendancy.

### The Turkish Purge

In 2016, Mehmet Ozberk, set his sights on the Turkish government, claiming that the Turkish government under the current Turkish president was corrupt and needed to be purged. His influence spread across the nation, with his dreams of a "new and reformed nation" attracting the attention of millions nationwide. From 2016 to the beginning of 2020, Ozberk oversaw efforts to recruit many various rogue military and intelligence personnel, as well as several prominent members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Turkish Judicial System, and even Turkish law enforcement officers into the Ascendancy.

Following this, Ozberk executed what he called "the Great Purge", during which the Ascendancy assassinated various politicians they perceived to be "corrupted beyond redemption", ultimately culminating in a bloody *coup d'etat* against the Turkish President and his entire administration, codenamed Iron Fish.

## Gallery

Mehmet Ozberk meeting with his men regarding his goal to destroy the USSR, 1984.