INTERPOL’s most wanted keep surfacing in Turkey amid expanding organized crime networks
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The arrest of an Afghan national wanted through an INTERPOL Red Notice in the western Turkish province of ...
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Turkey’s rulers rely on sprawling prison system to suppress opposition and silence critics
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish government’s aggressive use of imprisonment against critics, dissidents and political opponents has continued to drive the ...
Erdogan’s proposal risks deepening Turkey’s role in illicit finance networks
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A sweeping tax proposal unveiled by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week — promising a 20-year exemption ...
Turkey’s deepening nexus with organized crime is no accident, but a matter of deliberate design
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Over more than a decade, organized crime syndicates ranging from drug trafficking networks to racketeering groups have operated ...
Turkish businessman alleges major extortion network linking media, judiciary and organized crime
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s justice minister, Akın Gürlek, a former chief prosecutor in Istanbul and a loyalist jurist who weaponized criminal ...
Italian crackdowns expose European threat from Turkish gangs that thrived under Erdogan
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Italian law enforcement actions over the past two years have repeatedly confronted a stark reality: the threats emanating ...
Official data reveal the scale of Turkey’s growing drug economy
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey recorded a sharp rise in drug-related arrests, seizures and prison populations in 2025, according to official data ...
Spain’s cocaine seizure exposes how Turkey lets drug lords and suspects walk free
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Spain’s record seizure of nearly 10 tons of cocaine from a cargo ship in the Atlantic Ocean has ...
Turkey’s intelligence agency expands as budget surges and power grows
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In mounting evidence that Turkey’s Islamist leadership is increasingly governing through its intelligence apparatus, the budget of the ...
Europe confronts a new menace: Turkish gangs born from Ankara’s institutional breakdown
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The systematic dismantling of Turkey’s law enforcement agencies, intelligence services and judiciary over the past decade — carried ...
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