Turkish mafia boss revelations rattle Erdogan's government
ANI
29 May 2021, 19:55 GMT+10
By John SolomouNicosia (Cyprus) May 29 (ANI) - In a series of seven You Tube videos released so far, and watched by more than 57 million people, notorious Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker made bombshell revelations with his claims that the Turkish government and politicians are in cahoots with the criminal underworld.
Ultra-nationalist Peker who served a number of prison terms, including for murder, kidnapping and establishing a criminal organization, confessed that he had a role in carrying out criminal acts on behalf of powerful figures in Turkey.
Peker said that former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar was the head of the deep state in Turkey and accused Agar and former intelligence official Korkut Eken of committing several unlawful acts, while they served in their posts, including involvement in an international drug-smuggling scheme and the killing of investigative journalist Ugur Mumcu with a car bomb in Ankara and shooting dead in the Turkish- held part of Cyprus of Turkish Cypriot journalist and peace advocate Kutlu Adali in 1996. These murders remain unsolved.