Turkish mafia
| Territory | Turkey, Western Europe,Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Sierra Leone, Albania, Israel, Balkans, Middle East, France, Iraq, Syria, Yemen |
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| Ethnicity | Turkish, Turkish Cypriot |
| Criminal activities | Drug trafficking, Arms trafficking, Assassination, Assault, Auto theft, Bank fraud, Blackmailing, Bribery, Car bombing, Contract killing, Counterfeiting, Extortion, Forced prostitution, Fraud, Human trafficking, Infiltration of Politics, Illegal gambling, Insurance fraud, Kidnapping, Money laundering, Murder, Police corruption, Police impersonation, Political corruption, Prostitution, Racketeering, Tax evasion, Theft, Witness intimidation, Witness tampering. |
| Allies | British firms, Albanian Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, Russian Mafia, Colombian Cartels, Italian Mafia |
Turkish mafia is the general term for criminal organizations based in Turkey and/or composed of (former) Turkish citizens. Crime groups with origins in Turkey are active throughout Western Europe, where a strong Turkish immigrant community exists and the Middle East. Turkish criminal groups participate in a wide range of criminal activities, internationally the most important being drug trafficking, especially heroin. In the trafficking of heroin they cooperate with Bulgarian mafia groups who transport the heroin further to countries such as Italy. Criminal activities such as the trafficking of other types of drugs, illegal gambling, human trafficking, prostitution or extortion are committed in Turkey itself as well as European countries with a sizeable Turkish community such as Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
Turkish gangs and mafias are also cooperating with some Laz, Zaza and Kurdish gangs. Some Turkish gangs are accepting other than Turkish members. Some Turkish crime syndicates have their origin in two regions: the Trabzon province on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the East and Southeast Anatolia in the south of the country.
Criminal groups composed of ethnic Turks are active throughout the country and in communities with a large ethnically Turkish population. Certain Turkish criminal groups have strong links with corrupt politicians and corrupt members of the local law enforcement. They are active in different sections of organized crime and can often be linked to politically motivated groups, such as the Grey Wolves. This can especially be the case with criminals in immigrant Turkish communities. Powerful and important Turkish criminal organizations mostly have their origin in the Trabzon Province and incorporate members of both the ethnic Turkish and the Turkish Laz populations.
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