Turkey: ex-mafia boss Sedat Peker publishes new video compromising for power
This time, the Turkish mafioso claims to have participated in the transfer of weapons to Syria on behalf of a private Turkish military company and to have subsequently learned that they had been delivered to the Al-Nosra Front.
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Former Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker, on the run abroad and targeted by an arrest warrant, posted a compromising new video on his YouTube channel on Sunday.
He claims to have participated in the transfer of arms to Syria on behalf of a private Turkish military company and to have subsequently learned that they had been delivered to the Al-Nusra Front.
For a month, this mafia godfather has been increasing the number of videos accusing senior officials of various crimes.
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With our correspondent in Istanbul,
Anne Andlauer
In November 2015,
Sedat Peker
boasted on social networks that he had sent truckloads of “
aid
” to Syria's Turkmen fighters to Syria.
In this new video, the mafia boss returns to this episode with serious allegations.
He claims that in addition to these trucks carrying what he describes as bulletproof vests and other equipment, he also organized the crossing of the Turkish-Syrian border with trucks full of weapons.
Weapons delivered to the Front al-Nosra
He explains that he acted as an intermediary on behalf of a private security company, SADAT, founded by a former general who was until January 2020 military adviser to President Erdogan.
According to Sedat Peker, SADAT organized these transfers and not the secret services or the army.
He claims to have discovered that these weapons had not been delivered to Turkmen fighters, but to the al-Nusra front, that is to say al-Qaeda in Syria, a group that Turkey already considered as terrorist at the time.
In May 2015, the opposition daily
Cumhuriyet
published photos of Turkish secret service trucks full of weapons for Syria, which had been intercepted in November 2013. Authorities claimed the trucks were delivering "
aid
" to Turkmen fighters.
► To read also: Turkey: the former mafia boss Sedat Peker again accuses Erdogan's entourage on YouTube
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