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Drug queen’s gang arrested as minister says ‘Turkish police keep European youth sober’
Drug queen’s gang arrested as minister says ‘Turkish police keep European youth sober’
Suspected members of a gang led by a notorious drug dealer dubbed by local media as the Queen of Death, were detained in Istanbul on Aug. 17, hours after Turkey’s Interior Minister said there would be “almost no sober youth left in Europe” if Turkish police did not conduct efficient narcotics operations. Click through for the story in photos...
The leading drug dealer, identified by local media as Saide D., was arrested earlier this year and the Aug. 17 raids targeted her gang in Istanbul’s Sariyer district.
Police found drugs hidden in footballs, breads and diapers during raids on five addresses in the Çayırbaşı neighborhood. Several people were detained in the operation, according to Demirören News Agency.
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Aug. 16 that Turkey is leading the global fight against illegal drugs.
“We, Turkey, were the top country in the world in seizing ecstasy [MDMA]. We also conduct 16 percent of global heroin seizures. We are doubling Europe in this regard,” Soylu said in the graduation ceremony of a training for narcotics police in Istanbul on Aug. 16.
“Excuse me but if we were not doing this, there would be almost no sober youth left in Europe,” he said.
The interior minister also warned illegal drug dealing “converges” with other crimes, including terrorism, and the future focus of Turkish police would be on sales over the Darknet, the shadowy parts of the Internet that are not indexed by search engines.
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