Document shows 78 of Turkey’s top 100 taxpayers withheld their names from the public record
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey's Revenue Administration (GİB) released its annual list of top income taxpayers this week, with the most striking ...
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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 ...
Report finds Turkey bridging cocaine routes between continents amid mafia and state collaboration
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is emerging as a critical link in global cocaine trafficking routes between Latin America and European, Russian ...
Turkish police officer accused of seeking bribe for issuance of Red Notice to help mafia eliminate rivals
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A 27-year police veteran demanding $25,000 to facilitate a request to INTERPOL for a Red Notice for a ...
Erdogan pushes for northern Cyprus election win amid allegations of interference and mafia links
Levent Kenez/Stockholm With just weeks to go before the October 19 presidential election in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ...
Erdogan’s former ally becomes priority target as Turkey-UAE extradition deal advances
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Approval of the extradition agreement between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed in July 2023 may ...
Detained mobster confessed to exploiting Turkey’s lenient money laundering laws
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In the first confirmed case of money laundering exploiting Turkey's no-questions-asked policy for transferring cash into the country, ...
Mafia becomes a partner in Islamist and far-right alliance in the governance of Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Alaattin Çakıcı, Turkey's most notorious mafia leader who was convicted and served time on multiple charges from ...
Sedat Peker, Erdoğan’s mafia leader ally, is spreading his wings
The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has contracted some of his clandestine operations to mafia leaders who have ...
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