Joining the Wolves: Erdogan's Pact with the Ultra-Nationalists
Ultra-nationalist football fans in Istanbul Foto: SEDAT SUNA / EPA-EFE Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı has spent decades terrorizing rivals and those holding different political views than his own. As one of the leading figures of a right-wing extremist group called the Grey Wolves, which has focused its ire in the past on leftists, Kurds and Alawites, Çakıcı is thought to be responsible for at least 41 political murders. In 2004, a court sentenced him to 19 years in prison, in part for having his ex-wife murdered in front of their son. A lot of people breathed a sigh of relief wh...