"Beat & Release": Blackmail and Extortion Activities of "Dalton Gang" Squeezed by Police Raids, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 20 October 2024)

Recent "Dalton Gang" publicity photo touting 

effectiveness.

Police operations launched against the Barış Boyun Gang

and the "Dalton Gang" have put pressure on the gangs' bosses.

In the "Kuyu-36" operation conducted on 14 October, Boyun 

Gang affiliate Adnan Çolak, the son of recently deceased former

footballer Mecnun Çolak, was captured.  Also nabbed was Murat 

Özavşar, the CEO of an Istanbul company. 

Among the crimes the gangs are accused of committing: firing on

a nightclub in Nişantaşı twice; throwing a bomb into the Çatalca-

Büyükçekmece TIR (long-haul trucks) garage; and threatening 

businessmen at the Tuzla shipyard. The aim of these criminal 

acts was to keep the flow of money to the gangs continuing. 

The gangs began to hire criminals from abroad to fill the 

vacancies left by members arrested in Turkey but recent police

raids and arrests of these for-hire foreign gangsters has put a 

big dent in the gangs' normal (!) blackmail and extortion activities 

against local businesses. 

Forced retirements.