Alaattin Çakıcı

Alaattin Çakıcı (born January 20, 1953 in Fındıklı ) is a convicted criminal in the field of organized crime and a well-known member of the extreme right-wing Ülkücü movement in Turkey .

youth

Alaattin Çakıcı was born to a Turkish family who had fled the Caucasus . His parents were Ali and Şakire Çakıcı. The family had five children, three boys and two girls. The family moved to Istanbul because of a blood revenge , so Alaattin grew up in Kâğıthane . He was considered quick-tempered and violent and was convicted in Istanbul of inciting the murder of a florist.

The family was rooted in the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi . In the 1970s Çakıcı took part in the violent clashes between the left and right in Turkey. An uncle was killed, his sister was arson, and finally, on May 5, 1980, his father was killed in a robbery. Çakıcı was imprisoned after the 1980 military coup and was released two years later for lack of evidence of participation in armed conflict. Çakıcı then collected gambling debts commercially and extorted protection money. Çakıcı also made money with a scam called hayali ihracat (imaginary export). In the 1980s, taxes were refunded for exports that were not made.

Alaattin Çakıcı and Nuriye Uğur Kılıç, the daughter of Dündar Kılıç, also a well-known Turkish mafia boss, married in 1991. It was Alaattin Çakıcı's second marriage. They got divorced in November 1994.

Litigation and legal situation

In 1995, he was charged with ordering to kill his ex-wife. He then fled abroad.

In August 1998 he was arrested in France and charged with forging passports. When he was arrested, he had three passports with him, one of which was a diplomatic passport. In the same year he was extradited to Turkey. In 2002 he was released on parole.

Alaattin Çakıcı was arrested in Styria, Austria, in July 2004 and extradited from there to Turkey. In Turkey, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the murder of his ex-wife.

In October 2015, he and two other men beat two prison guards in Tekirdağ Prison. The prison guards suffered broken bones. Two months later, the prison authorities decided that Alaattin Çakıcı did not need to be brought to trial. He is said to have beaten prison guards before and received no punishment for it.

In April 2020, Çakıcı was released due to a nationwide Covid-19 amnesty.

Political networking

According to his own statements, Alaattin Çakıcı worked for the Turkish secret service MIT . There are photos of him and the former director of the secret service. During his detention in France in 1998, several telephone conversations with Turkish politicians and entrepreneurs were recorded. The interior minister is believed to have warned him of a possible arrest.

In May 2018, Çakıcı received a visit from the party leader of the MHP , Devlet Bahçeli . Bahçeli campaigned for his release because he believed that Çakıcı had done a lot for the country. Bahçeli demanded an amnesty from Erdoğan for Çakıcı and another mafia boss Kursat Yilmaz, as it is also required that Selahattin Demirtaş be released.

Threats from prison

HDP controversy

Selahattin Demirtaş replied to Bahçeli's release efforts on his Twitter account that it was apparently better to be a murderer and psychopathic mafia boss than a leader of a party that gets millions of votes? Çakıcı then threatened Demirtaş and the HDP co-chairman Sezai Temelli via Instagram.

Threat against journalists

In July 2018, he threatened six journalists from Karar newspaper that they would be shot. Two journalists then quit their jobs at Karar. Several of the threatened journalists are under police protection.

In July 2018, the court allowed him 11 hours a day to visit.

Individual evidence

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