2024-09-21 19:33:32
The “Turkish Escobar”, as the 66-year-old drug lord Urfi Cetinkaya is known, has died at the age of 66 in a prison in Turkey, Turkish private television NTV reported.
Chetinkaya, who has been in prison many times during his life, was detained for the last time on April 12 of this year. in Istanbul. He was wanted on a red notice by Interpol because he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for drug production and trafficking.
During a police operation against the “Turkish Escobar” criminal group on February 20 this year, 43 suspects were detained in several districts of the country, including Istanbul, Izmir and Antalya, BTA reported.
The suspects, who were found to be responsible for a total of 37 tonnes of drugs, of which 13 tonnes seized in Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Mauritania, Portugal and Greece, and 24 tonnes seized in Turkey, were involved in international drug trafficking with their known to have used their own ships, commercial containers and fishing boats, the TV channel noted.