After the arrest of the alleged boss Bariş Boyun, interests emerge between its criminal organization and the ‘Ndrangheta. In common, business for drug trafficking and illegal immigrants.
From his home in Crotone and, even before, from the headquarters he had chosen in Rimini, Baris Boyun integrated his relations with associates, affiliates and criminal contacts scattered between our country, Turkey and Europe of the East. Various Italian prosecutors indicate it precisely as a boss of the Turkish mafia and by the authorities of Istanbul is held one of the leaders of a criminal organization responsible for 19 murders and attempted murders. In addition, at home he enjoys a certain notoriety, so much so that he is the protagonist of videos on YouTube: here he is taken with his affiliates in sumptuous banquets, where weapons also perform.
He is currently detained in Milan, waiting for a trial, while in Rome he decides for his extradition. Boyun was ascertained, also subjected to restrictive measures has maintained control of illegal activities, imparting orders. In Crotone, however, moving without being noticed is impossible. Especially for someone like him. The powerful families of ‘Ndrangheta have excellent informants for the things they matter. To think that the Turkish criminal has lived between those four walls “sea view” without tightening relationships, nor having interlocutors, alliances or pacts, is simply out of reality. In the full -bodied judicial file on him, there is only one interception in this regard, but it is significant: Boyun first boasts of managing, through his men, “the whole German market”, then to be able to “sell also in Switzerland” and finally he says: “There is an Italian group and there are friends”.
These words remained against the background of the investigation, despite some coincidences. Turkey, in fact, is not only a stop in international drug trafficking, but also a strategic refuge for the fugitives related to the ‘Ndrangheta. In November 2022, for example, Luciano Camporesi Dontracting originally originally from Rimini (city where, in that same year, Boyun was blocked for the first time in Italy), and which has close links with Calabrian crime, he was arrested in Analya, on the Turkish coast, after four years of hiding. The investigations have revealed that Camporesi managed a ship, the Remus, used for the transport of drug loads.
Also in the state-twist between Europe and the Middle East another Narcos moved: baby Roberto Pannunzi, aka Miguel, the uncle, the goiter, the Lord, the little guy, the dyer, the blonde, the surveyor, a character who managed to put together several Colombian signs and who stocked his goods right in Türkiye.
Not only that. In some cases, between the ports of Mersin and Adana, human traffickers would have referred – in the context of criminal proceedings – to “Italian friends”. And the main suspects are some emissaries of the ionic gangs of the powerful Iamonte family of Melito di Porto Salvo. Nobody, as has been said, can act independently in the relationships between the criminal organizations of the various countries. It applies to those who sell weapons, for those who traffic in drugs, for those looking for supports or hiding places. And also for accounts regulations. Just like the one who should have removed Boyun in the middle.
On the night of March 18, last year, in fact, someone went to look for him. And not to talk to him. Here is the reconstruction. At three in the morning, called at 113: “Scarf of woman and shots in via Vittorio Veneto”. When the police arrive on the spot, he finds blankets on the stairs and a riddled door of shots. The shots were directed against Boyun’s apartment, home detained for illegal possession of a weapon, contested by the Milan mobile team. Pistol shots against the door first, then kick to break it out. But nobody managed to enter. Then, the boss’s wife overlooks the entrance of the house: he wants to reactivate the skipped current. He sees two men with covered face. Preciitually falls into the apartment. So the shots. The killers who try to enter by force. And they only run away when the woman comes out on the balcony to call help … the next day Boyun is taken away by the home. The police transfers him in a safer place. But the message for him, meanwhile, came clearly: his enemies know where he is. And they intend to make him pay. Microspies and environmental interceptions revealed what happened later.
Boyun, escaped the ambush, wants revenge. Indicates the culprits: call them by name: «Naci», “Ali Uzun” and “Burhanettin”. The latter is identified as Burhanettin Saral, a member of a rival clan. The Turkish boss, according to the investigations, is determined to organize armed retaliation. Not in Italy. On its territory. He wants to hit an aluminum factory in Tekirdag, near Istanbul. There, he says, he finds himself “Burhanettin”. And he knows that the place is protected from bulletproof glass and armed guards. From the interceptions it appears that orders to his men to recover weapons. In short, he has shown to command even when he is under strict control of the state. “The same suspects”, is written in the request for arrest for him and 19 other people last May (while only a month ago, in great silence, the Turkish police arrested 21 people suspected of being part of the Boyun group in Istanbul), “moreover, they said that their stay in Italy is closely linked to the request for advanced protection to the Italian state”. The document continues: “Just the ability to exploit the institutions to escape international capture mandates or simple expulsion, boasting alleged persecutions by the Turkish government, confirms that, if left in freedom, they can definitively escape justice”.
The persecutions concern the initial and alleged contiguity of Boyun with the Kurdish party of the PKK. At a certain point, he had even put himself in the lead to overcome the training for the independence of Kurdistan: “We will merge a new organization by starting a new revolution”, he said on the phone without having problems. His right arm, Ahmet Durmus, in addition to having hosted in Italy “exponents of Turkish criminal organizations such as Atiz Ismail called Hamus”, would have “favored and coordinated the trafficking of immigrants from Turkey, lenting clandestines and sought by the Turkish authorities, ensuring them the various passages to Germany”.
This is the aspect that the Milanese investigators, coordinated by the prosecutor Bruna Albertini, are trying to deepen. The hypothesis is that there would be asylum requests against situations of fictitious persecution. In intercepted conversations we often speak of “passports”, “documents” and costs for transport. Furthermore, Durmus boasts: “If there is someone who wants to come to Europe I can also help him through non -legal ways”. It is only the last of the excellent business of the mafia group that he said he wanted to make the revolution.
