DivriÄŸi
DivriÄŸi (; ) is a town of eleven thousand people in Sivas Province, Turkey, and is the district capital of DivriÄŸi District.Istanbul Chief of Police from 1979 to 1983 (a period including the
), and previously he also served as the deputy chief of police in Istanbul in 1972 and 1977.
Today's Zaman
''Today's Zaman'' (Zaman is Turkish for 'time' or 'age') was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey. Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily '' Zaman.'' ''Today's Zaman'' included dom ...
Turkish mafia
Turkish mafia () is the general term for criminal organizations based in Turkey and/or composed of current or former Turkish citizens. Crime groups with origins in Turkey are active throughout Western Europe (where a strong Turkish immigrant comm ...
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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
Hüseyin Baybaşin (born 25 December 1956) is a Kurdish drug baron and crime boss, the former leader of the Baybaşin family. Following his drug trafficking in the 1990s, he made his name internationally. He was a notorious criminal against w ...
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
Mehmet Eymür (5 September 1943 – 13 January 2024) was a Turkish intelligence official. In 1995–1996 he led the counter-terrorism department of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), which he joined as a student in 1965 as a "pursuit of ...
's 1987 MIT Report on coordinating links between police, politicians and the mafia, and investigations into the state-mafia connections revealed by the 1996
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 an ...
also mentions about Balcı. In 2013 Turkish Police Academy, was dedicated to his name Sukru Balci .17 May 2008, ''
BirGün
''BirGün'' (''One Day'') is an Istanbul-based Turkish left-wing daily.
The paper was founded in 2004 by a group of Turkish intellectuals. The most important point of the newspaper is that it is not owned by any parent company or conglomerate.
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