Libya-linked POS money-laundering case in Turkey leaves key actors untouched
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Forced to launch an investigation into a money-laundering ring tied to Libya under mounting international pressure, Turkish authorities ...
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Turkey has become a haven for organized crime: Hitmen and smugglers now advertise publicly
Nordic Monitor/Stockholm Turkey’s evolving mafia-style governance, shaped by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist administration and reinforced by his far-right ally ...
Turkey’s drug seizures reveal a much larger trafficking pipeline under political protection
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm When Turkey’s trade minister, Ömer Bolat, addressed the Turkish Parliament’s Budget and Planning Committee on November 5, his ...
From Ankara to Wall Street: the political shielding and global fallout of Turkey’s mine disaster
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A deadly gold mine accident in Turkey exposed how a state captured by greedy corporate power, a political ...
Turkish high court vacates convictions for drug trafficking to Germany and the Netherlands
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A ruling by Turkey’s top criminal bench has quietly vacated two major convictions connected to a notorious underworld ...
Erdogan’s Turkey seen as safe haven for fugitives, US federal case signals
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In an ongoing US federal case involving a Turkish national accused of defrauding the American government of more ...
US indictment exposes Turkish link in global drug trafficking network
Abdullah Bozkurt/ Stockholm A major US federal criminal complaint has revealed a vast methamphetamine trafficking scheme with significant ties to ...
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