The Turkish Mafia dominates the world heroin trade. For fifty years, it has processed raw opiates in clandestine labs and trafficked to the lucrative markets of Western Europe and the United States. Customs officers estimate that is supplies 80 per cent of the 'smack' that reaches Britain. Yet it has remained the most mysterious of global crime cartels.
In this landmark book, two eminent criminoligists lift the lid on the extraordinary story of the 'babas', or godfathers, tracing their origins from the so-called urban knights of Istanbul. They reveal details of the historic conclave in 1980, when the babas carved up Europe between them, and spotlight drug barons like the notorious Huseyin Baybasin, the 'Pablo Escobar of Europe'. And the explore the murky world of the right-wing Grey Wolf death squads, the Kurdish PKK, and the Deep State, a shadowy conspiracy bwtween politicians, the military and the leading crime clans.
The Turkish Mafia is the last great untold story of internatiional organised crime and the rutheless men who run it.
In this landmark book, two eminent criminoligists lift the lid on the extraordinary story of the 'babas', or godfathers, tracing their origins from the so-called urban knights of Istanbul. They reveal details of the historic conclave in 1980, when the babas carved up Europe between them, and spotlight drug barons like the notorious Huseyin Baybasin, the 'Pablo Escobar of Europe'. And the explore the murky world of the right-wing Grey Wolf death squads, the Kurdish PKK, and the Deep State, a shadowy conspiracy bwtween politicians, the military and the leading crime clans.
The Turkish Mafia is the last great untold story of internatiional organised crime and the rutheless men who run it.
