Hundreds of organized crime syndicates have flourished in Turkey on Erdogan’s watch - Nordic Monitor

Hundreds of organized crime syndicates have flourished in Turkey on Erdogan’s watch - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A letter from Turkey’s interior minister has exposed how the country has become a safe haven for organized crime networks, drug traffickers, cybercriminals and internationally wanted fugitives. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, who oversees the country’s two main law enforcement agencies — the police and the gendarmerie — claimed in a letter to parliament that more than 660 organized crime groups operating in Turkey had…