Sedat Peker
 Sedat Peker    (gangster) | |
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| Born | 26 June 1971 |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Interests | Ergenekon |
Turkish mafia boss and whistleblower, who has revealed sensitive information about the deep state political power structure. | |
Sedat Peker is a Turkish mafia boss[1] and whistleblower, who has revealed sensitive information about the Turkish deep state political power structure and numerous government engagements in illegal and covert activities through his own YouTube channel, including the smuggling of weapons and supplies to 'rebels' in Syria.[2]
Life
Peker was born in Adapazarı, in the Turkish province of Sakarya. According to his personal website, he is of Caucasian origin.[3] He spent considerable time in Germany. He is a noted Turanist.
Peker was tried for the murder of the drug smuggler Abdullah Topçu, but acquitted. The two other defendants in the same case, considered to be Peker's employees, were sentenced to lifelong imprisonment.
After this, he fled to Romania and was sought for, amongst others, protection racketeering, coercion, and incitement to murder. During this time it was reported that Peker had been visited by a minister and a member of parliament from the Motherland Party and guaranteed, in return for an unknown favor, to be only imprisoned for a short period of time.[4]
On 17 August 1998, Peker was brought to Turkey of his own free will and surrendered to the authorities. The case against him was opened in September 1998. He pleaded guilty to the crimes for which he was accused and was found guilty of building a criminal organization. During the trial, Peker made some interesting remarks, which he never cleared up: "An older member of parliament sent me an SMS which said I shouldn't behave too arrogantly. I would like to tell you (the court) everything, because if I don't it could come to pass that I commit suicide under suspicious circumstances." The prosecutors requested at least 7½ years' imprisonment, but Peker was only sentenced to eight months and 29 days. He was released on 24 May 1999.[5]
On 12 May 2005, he was arrested during Operation Butterfly. On 31 January 2007, he was found guilty of building and leading a criminal organization, robbery, forgery, and two counts of false imprisonment, and sentenced to 14 years and five months.[6][7][8]
On 30 May 2008, during his incarceration, Peker married his lawyer, Özge Yılmaz.[9]
Peker is allegedly a member of the underground Turkish organization Ergenekon.[10] Veli Küçük said in 2008 that Peker was the "son of a friend."[11] On 5 August 2013, Peker was sentenced to ten years in prison as part of the Ergenekon trials; however, he and the other convicts were released a few months later.[12]
On 13 January 2016, Peker said in a well-attended speech that the academics who signed the petition for peace will be massacred: "We will let your blood in streams and we will take a shower in your blood!"[13] For this speech he got prosecuted, but acquitted in July 2018.[5]
In early 2020, he went from Turkey to Montenegro, then he left the Balkans to Morocco, and later to the United Arab Emirates. In May 2021 in a video on YouTube he accused Tolga Ağar, son of former interior minister Mehmet Ağar, of raping and murdering Kazakh student Yeldana Kaharman.[14][15] In addition, he alleged Mehmet Ağar's role in the killing of Kutlu Adalı,[16] and alleged Ağar's involvement along with former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım's son Erkan in an international drug trafficking scheme.[17]
He also described how Turkey supplied weapons and supplies to 'rebels' in Syria.
He is an open advocate for the establishment of a Pan-Turkic system.
References
- ↑ https://theguardian.com/world/2021/may/25/mafia-bosss-youtube-claims-rattle-turkish-government
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57242840 "the 1990s...was an era of complex links between mafia gangs, police, politicians and business circles...Sedat Peker...was an important figure in the 1990s."
- ↑ Sedat Peker-Biyografi
- ↑ Indictment in the Ergenekon case, page 303 (Turkish).
- ↑ a b https://bianet.org/english/law/199221-sedat-peker-acquitted-of-trial-of-threatening-academics%7C
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201701/http://www.todayszaman.com/news-101668-sedat-peker-sentenced-to-14-years-of-jail.html
- ↑ Sedat Peker'e 14 yıl hapis cezası, Hürriyet, retrieved 26 October 2008.
- ↑ Sedat peker is tried again, Sabah (Turkish)
- ↑ trabzonunsesi.com, 14 June 2008, Sedat Peker Avukatıyla Evlendi (Turkish)
- ↑ Turkey: Trial against „Ergenekon“-Conspirators begins, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (German)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150518101706/http://www.todayszaman.com/news-136926-ultra-nationalist-mobster-questioned-over-ergenekon.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130806033514/http://todayszaman.com/news-322781-long-sentences-for-ergenekon-suspects-life-for-ex-army-chief.html
- ↑ http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/notorious-criminal-threatens-academics-calling-for-peace-in-turkeys-southeast.aspx?pageID=238&nID=93834&NewsCatID=341
- ↑ https://www.birgun.net/haber/sedat-peker-berat-albayrak-in-abisine-seslendi-ben-devletin-karakolunda-milletvekilinin-kemiklerini-kirdirdim-344133
- ↑ https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/turkey-s-wicked-messenger-has-gone-viral-here-s-why-1.1227895
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-dunya-57219829
- ↑ https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-mafia-boss-claims-former-pms-son-ex-minister-part-of-intl-drug-trafficking-scheme-news-57577 |
