The new minister of Internal Affairs, Ali Yerlikaya, delivers daily news of police raids and clampdowns on gangs and mafia entities that flourished during the previous minister’s reign. Based on the recent news and TikTok self-representations, I created a map of connections between the various gangs. It is not a definite map and relies on current news cycles. Here is the map. This is ongoing work, and open to suggestions.
A more authoritative source on Turkish mafia here
This image circulated on Turkish social media recently. I find the outlook, aesthetics, posing as the symbol of the recent rise of gang/ mafia imagery though the persons there may not accept this labeling:
Erdoğan opens modern Türkiye’s first new church
The foundation stone for the construction of the Mor Ephrem Syrian Orthodox Church was laid by Erdoğan in 2019, an event for Istanbul’s 17,000-strong Assyrian Christian community.
“This is the first newly built church to open its doors since the founding of the Turkish Republic,” Istanbul Syriac Kadim Foundation president Sait Susin told AFP.
Turkish TV series reach 750 mln viewers
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