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Şükrü Balcı
Şükrü Balcı (1929, Divriği - 6 May 1993, USA) was a Turkish high-ranking civil servant, governor and chief of police. He has a law degree from the Law School of Ankara University He served as the Istanbul Chief of Police from 1979 to 1983 (a period including the 1980 Turkish coup d'état), and previously he also served as the deputy chief of police in Istanbul in 1972 and 1977.Today's Zaman, 16 May 2013Name of Sept. 12 police chief to be removed from school/ref> He was believed to have strong influence and links with the Turkish mafia. In the late 1970s Balcı was indicted for suspected arms smuggling and acquitted. This did not appear to harm his career. According to Turkish-Kurdish drug lord Hüseyin Baybaşin who was arrested by Sukru Balci, Balcı was at the time the most important state official working with the DEA in controlling the transshipment of heroin through Turkey. Balcı was accused in Mehmet Eymür's 1987 MIT Report on coordinating links between police, politi ...
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DivriÄŸi
Divriği (; ) is a town of eleven thousand people in Sivas Province, Turkey, and is the district capital of Divriği District.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
The town lies on a gentle slope on the south bank of the Çaltısuyu river, a tributary of the Karasu river which flows into the . The 13th century
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Susurluk Scandal
The Susurluk scandal () or Susurluk accident (), was a 1996 political scandal in Turkey that exposed a close relationship between the Turkish government, the ultra-nationalistic paramilitary Grey Wolves (organization), Grey Wolves organization and the Turkish mafia. It took place during the peak of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in the mid-1990s. The scandal surfaced with a Susurluk car crash, car–truck collision on November 3, 1996, near the small town of Susurluk in the province of Balıkesir. The victims included the deputy chief of the Istanbul Police Department, a Member of Parliament, and Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Grey Wolves and a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (Turkey) (MİT), who was on Interpol's INTERPOL notice, red list at the time of his death. The peculiar connections of those involved in the crash with Interior Minister Mehmet AÄŸar brought to light the existence of a deep state in Turkey and an internal power struggle wit ...
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Turkish Police Chiefs
Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The word that Iranian Azerbaijanis use for the Azerbaijani language * Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkey), 1299–1922, previously sometimes known as the Turkish Empire ** Ottoman Turkish, the Turkish language used in the Ottoman Empire * Turkish Airlines, an airline * Turkish music (style), a musical style of European composers of the Classical music era * Turkish, a character in the 2000 film '' Snatch'' See also * * * Turk (other) * Turki (other) * Turkic (other) * Turkey (other) * Turkiye (other) * Turkish Bath (other) * Turkish population, the number of ethnic Turkish people in the world * Culture of Turkey * History of Turkey ** History of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic languages ...
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People From DivriÄŸi
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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