International cocaine trafficker wanted by Brazil built a business in Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Jordanian drug trafficker with a criminal record stretching back three decades was able to settle in Turkey ...
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Turkey’s top court blocked extradition of drug trafficker who facilitated major cocaine trafficking in Europe
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s highest criminal court, dominated by far-right nationalists and Islamists, last year halted the extradition of a suspect ...
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 ...
Turkey retreats from justice in ISIS suicide bombing that killed Israelis
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Despite evidence of complicity in a suicide attack that killed foreigners including three Israeli citizens in Istanbul in ...
‘Torpedo method’ cocaine smuggling surfaces in Turkey as authorities quash drug convictions, shield local actors
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The “torpedo method” of drug smuggling from Colombia has surfaced in Turkey, a country that has increasingly become ...
Turkey’s top court quashes terrorism conviction of 2 Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of Atef Shahat Abdelaal Elgendy, a senior ...
Turkey’s top court cracks open probe that could expose intelligence-linked migrant smuggling to Cyprus
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has inadvertently opened a legal pathway that could expose whether the National Intelligence ...
New US Embassy in Ankara stuck in legal limbo amid Turkish land dispute
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The sprawling new US Embassy compound in Ankara, operational since 2022, faces renewed legal uncertainty after Turkey’s Supreme ...
Fake diplomats, a private jet and an asylum scam facilitated by corrupt Turkish judiciary, police
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s facilitation of an asylum scam for migrants willing to pay top money for illegal transfer to Europe ...
In today’s Turkey, threats to kill Americans and Jews are deemed protected free speech
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In yet another troubling sign of Turkey’s increasingly partisan judiciary — dominated by Islamists and far-right nationalists — ...
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