Authorities have been hunting Hakan Ayik for more than a decade. Now for the first time we have uncovered his life of luxury lived in the open on the border between east and west.
Hakan Ayik, 42, remains one of Australia s most wanted men after fleeing Sydney for Turkey more than a decade ago when he was linked to a $230 million heroin importation syndicate.
Leading criminologists believe flamboyant Facebook Gangster and alleged drug lord Hakan Ayik will never give himself up after being caught in Operation Ironside.
21:07 EDT, 9 June 2021
A photo of crime lord Hakan Ayik enjoying a luxury dinner alongside a former top Comancheros bikie has re-surfaced, showing the Australian crime king pin in happier times, unaware his high life as the Facebook Gangster was about to come to an abrupt end this week.
The photo with ex-Comanchero Baris Tukel sharing a dinner with a bevy of attractive friends in Istanbul would now seem a world away for Ayik, who is a wanted man not just by authorities but now also by fellow gangsters who blame him for the police raid this week which smashed their violent drug syndicates.