Man murdered in Barcelona would be one of the biggest drug traffickers in Türkiye – 2024-05-08 18:53:42

Kartal, whose real name was Ilmettin Aytekin, was born 30 years ago in the Diyarbakir region of southeastern Turkey. and had Turkish and German nationalitysays the Turkish newspaper Republic.

He indicates that the murder seems to be the work of a hitman, but emphasizes that It is not known why Kartal was in Barcelona. nor if he did business there.

According to the newspaper Sabahthe young mafia member, linked to the “Kartal” clan (Eagle, in Turkish), He first gained notoriety in 2021 by participating in a shooting in central Istanbul caused by a dispute over construction land in which a passerby was killed.

Kartal was acquitted for lack of evidence and moved to Germany, from where he apparentlyHe began to get involved in European drug trafficking.

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Although He is now credited with having controlled “90% of heroin trafficking in the United Kingdom,” He has barely left a trace in the Turkish press prior to his death.

The Turkish Government’s anti-disinformation service DMM released a brief message on Tuesday in which it criticized the dissemination of a video in which Turkish soldiers are seen forming in a barracks shouting “To live is to resist! “Tekin Kartal!”

Scandalous video in Turkish Armed Forces: Tekin Kartal was killed in a mafia showdown, commemorated in the barracks

🖊️ Ersin Eroğlu [@ersineroglu_] pic.twitter.com/xNIkavwKSu

— 10Haber (@_10Haber) May 6, 2024

The opposition chain Halk TV has denounced that the video demonstrates the overlap between the mafia and the Armed Forces, but DMM assures that the video is “old”, that it is an “isolated” incident and that its dissemination is a “manipulation”.

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It does not clarify whether the character supposedly honored in the video is the young drug trafficker murdered last Saturday in Barcelona or a boss of the same name who was one of the most powerful gangsters in Istanbul two decades ago and died in a shootout in 2020.