Italian crackdowns expose European threat from Turkish gangs that thrived under Erdogan

Italian crackdowns expose European threat from Turkish gangs that thrived under Erdogan

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Italian law enforcement actions over the past two years have repeatedly confronted a stark reality: the threats emanating from what critics describe as the mafia-style rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government in Turkey, where a criminal ecosystem has been allowed to flourish under the protection or tolerance of political leadership. The pattern is increasingly evident. When Turkish networks move money, weapo…