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{{Short description|Turkish Mafia boss (born 1953)}}
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'''Alaettin Çakıcı''' (born 20 January 1953) is one of the leading figures of the [[Turkish mafia]], a convicted felon and a former member of the [[Nationalism#Nationalism and extremism|ultra-nationalist]] [[Grey Wolves (organization)|Grey Wolves]] in Turkey.

Initially employed by the Turkish [[National Intelligence Organization (Turkey)|National Intelligence Organization]] for covert operations outside Turkey in the 1980s, contracting assassinations, he went underground from 1992-1998, was arrested and imprisoned for 2 years, arrested again and imprisoned for 16 years. Çakıcı is the arch rival of mafia boss [[Sedat Peker]]. After Çakıcı’s release in 2020, Peker left the country and exposed Çakıcı's connections to former members of the Erdogan cabinet, like [[Mehmet Ağar]].

==Early life and education==
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Alaettin Çakıcı was born in [[Arsin, Trabzon]], Turkey in 1953.

==Career ==

[[Mehmet Eymür]], a leading official of the Turkish [[National Intelligence Organization (Turkey)|National Intelligence Organization]] (MİT), disclosed that he was the first person to employ Alaettin Çakıcı of the MİT. [[Yavuz Ataç]], an operations official, confirmed that he was introduced to Alaettin Çakıcı. Two months later he joined the MİT in May 1987 as the manager of the security department. Ataç said "Çakıcı has been a fugitive, sought for six or seven crimes at the time he first met him". According to Ataç, Çakıcı was assigned to operations outside of Turkey.<ref name="aks" />

As determined by the security forces, Çakıcı was in 1995 on the assassination list of [[Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front|Dev Sol]], a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] organization.<ref name="aks" />

=== Political ties and scandals ===
Çakıcı contracted the assassination of [[Cavit Çağlar]], a wealthy businessman from [[Bursa]] and a high-level politician and government minister, and Mehmet Üstünkaya, former president of [[Beşiktaş JK]], in relation with the incidents known as the "[[Türkbank scandal]]", in connection with the privatization of [[Türk Ticaret Bankası]] to [[Korkmaz Yiğit]]. The plot was uncovered by the police at the preparation stage.<ref name="aks" /> He has close ties to [[Devlet Bahçeli]], the president of the far-right political party [[Nationalist Movement Party|MHP]] who visited him in prison<ref name="hurriyet" /> and who in 2018 demanded a general amnesty for certain prisoners, naming Çakıcı personally. The demand was denied by the government, though.<ref name="ahvalnews" />

=== Abroad (1992–1998) ===
Çakıcı fled abroad in 1992 with the help of a [[false passport]]. It was determined that he toured in Belgium, United States, Italy, South Africa, France, Brazil, Singapore and Japan. He is held responsible for the murder of 41 people.<ref name="sab" />

=== Arrest in France (1998) ===
Informed by the Turkish police, French police apprehended him on 17 August 1998 in a hotel in [[Nice]], France together with his bodyguard [[Muradi Güler]] and his courier Aslı Fatoş Ural, daughter of composer Selçuk Ural.<ref name="sab" /> He had been carrying a fake [[Turkish passport#Types|diplomatic passport]] (red passport) on the name of "Nedim Caner" and US$17,000 cash with him.<ref name="rad" />

His capture revealed his connections not only to the intelligence service, but also to high-level politicians and the [[deep state in Turkey]].<ref name="aks" /> Recording tapes published after his capture in 1998 in France led to the resignation of the government minister from the [[Motherland Party (Turkey)|Motherland Party]] (ANAP) [[Eyüp Aşık]], who was accused of warning Çakıcı to flee. [[Meral Akşener]], minister of interior from the [[Democrat Party (Turkey, current)|True Path Party]] (DYP), MİT agent [[Yavuz Ataç]] and businessman [[Erol Evcil]] were also accused of the same allegation.<ref name="sab" /> After 16 months of isolated incarceration in France, he was returned to Turkey of his own will on 14 December 1999. He was imprisoned in [[Kartal]] Prison in Istanbul. Following controversies with rival gang member inmates, he was transferred to the maximum-security [[Kandıra]] prison in [[İzmit|Kocaeli]].<ref name="sab" />

In June 2000 he was sentenced to five years for running a criminal gang.<ref name="h1" />

===Abroad (2003–2004)===
Çakıcı was released from prison on 1 December 2002.<ref name="r2" /> Although not allowed to leave Turkey and his passport confiscated, he fled from [[Antalya]]<ref name="star" /> to Greece by sea as told by a group of people, including his nephew and [[Erol Evcil]], who were apprehended by the police in [[Foça]], [[İzmir]].<ref name="r3" /> Çakıcı had obtained a passport with false identity and photograph from the police in [[Ümraniye]], [[Istanbul]].<ref name="star" />

=== Arrest in Austria (2004) ===
Çakıcı stayed four-and-a-half months in [[Paris]] and [[Strasbourg]] in France as observed by the Turkish police.<ref name="ntv1" /> In order to visit Ali Çakıcı, son from his first marriage, in a hospital in [[Graz]],<ref name="sg1" /> he drove to Austria changing his car three times on the way.<ref name="ntv2" /> His intention was to pass later to Italy to join his girlfriend Aslı Fatoş Ural. On 14 July 2004 Austrian police, informed by the Turkish police, apprehended Çakıcı out of [[Graz]]. He had been carrying a Turkish special passport (green passport) issued on the name Faik Meral, a retired MİT agent, and its expiration extended from the police in İzmir. He had EUR 4,000 in cash with him.<ref name="ntv1" /> Visas in his passport showed that he traveled first to Russia and then entered Germany, where he stayed a while before going to France.<ref name="ntv2" />

On 14 October 2004, Çakıcı was deported from Austria at the request of the [[Ministry of Justice (Turkey)|Turkish Ministry of Justice.]] He was brought from [[Vienna]] to Istanbul in a commercial airliner escorted by five policemen. After trial, he was imprisoned in the maximum-security prison in [[Tekirdağ]].<ref name="sab1" />

=== Trials (2004–2020) ===
After his return to Turkey, Çakıcı was put on trial, and found guilty of the following crimes:

* Three years and four months' imprisonment for his contract to shoot the renowned journalist [[Hıncal Uluç]], as he had written a newspaper column about him and his wife Uğur Kılıç he was about to divorce.<ref name="rad1" />
* Three years and four months' imprisonment for [[organized crime]] in relation with the gunned assault on 26 March 2000 to the club local of [[Fatih Karagümrük S.K.]] in Istanbul.<ref name="rad1" />
* Nineteen years and two months' imprisonment for his contract to murder his ex-wife.<ref name="rad2" />
* Ten years and ten months' imprisonment for the gunned assault at the [[speculator]] Adil Öngen's car.<ref name="rad2" />

=== Release, 2020 ===
On 15 April 2020, he was released after the Turkish parliament approved a law to contain the spread of the [[COVID-19]] in the prisons.<ref name="hurr2" /><ref name="reuters" /> After Çakıcı's release, Peker left the country and exposed Çakıcı's connections to former members of the Erdogan cabinet, like [[Mehmet Ağar]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Can Dündar |date=2024-08-13 |title=Wie ich ins Fadenkreuz eines Mafiabosses geriet |url=https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/tuerkei/2024/08/13/wie-ich-ins-fadenkreuz-eines-mafiabosses-geriet/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=correctiv.org |language=de-DE}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

In 1991, Çakıcı made his second marriage with Nuriye Uğur Kılıç, the daughter of [[Dündar Kılıç]], a mob boss of the Turkish underworld sports nicknamed the "[[Capo dei capi|godfather of godfathers]]" ({{langx|tr|Babaların Babası}}).<ref name="rad2" /> However, he and his father-in-law fell out following the chain of incidents known as the "Civangate".<ref name="aks" /> In November 1994, the couple divorced.<ref name="rad2" /> He contracted the killing of his ex-wife Uğur Kılıç and his ex-henchman [[Nurullah Tevfik Ağansoy]].<ref name="aks" /> On 20 January 1995,<ref name="r1" /> she was shot dead with seven bullets fired by the [[Contract killing|hitman]] Abdurrahman Keskin in front of her son Onur in [[Uludağ]], a [[ski resort]] in [[Bursa]]. It was on Çakıcı's birthday.<ref name="rad2" />

== References ==
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<ref name="at1">[http://www.news.at/articles/0429/15/87034/die-geschaefte-tuerkenmafia-firma-mord-ueberfall-drogen Notorious Turkish mafia boss caught in Nizza] ''News.at'' (German)</ref>

<ref name="at2">[http://www.news.at/articles/0430/10/87390/tuerkischer-mafiaboss-alaattin-cakici-abschiebung-tuerkei Çakıcı committed over 40 murders] ''News.at'' (German)</ref>

<ref name="aks">{{cite journal|url=http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/detay.php?id=15024 |publisher=Aksiyon |author=Akyol, Fuat |title=Babaların Sonu, Reislerin Yükselişi |volume=261 |date=4 December 1999 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516010737/http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/detay.php?id=15024 |archive-date=16 May 2007}}</ref>

<ref name="rad2">{{cite news |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=205887 |publisher=Radikal |title=Çakıcı İçin 19 Yıl Hapis |date=29 November 2006 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618133619/http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=205887 |archive-date=18 June 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="r1">{{cite news |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=122270 |publisher=Radikal |title=Çakıcı'yı Dava Maratonu Bekliyor |date=15 July 2004 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040921090750/http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=122270 |archive-date=21 September 2004 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="sab">{{cite news |url=http://arsiv.sabah.com.tr/ozel/alaattin58/dosya_113.html |publisher=Sabah |title=Alaattin Çakıcı Kimdir? |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090129150231/http://arsiv.sabah.com.tr/ozel/alaattin58/dosya_113.html| archive-date= 29 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

<ref name="rad">{{cite web |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/1998/08/18/turkiye/1cakici.html |publisher=[[Radikal]] |title=Çakıcı Nice'te Yakalandı |date=18 August 1998 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish}}</ref>

<ref name="h1">[[Hurriyet Daily News]], 20 July 2004, [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=former-mit-employee-questioned-in-relation-to-cakici-affair-2004-07-20 Former MIT employee questioned in relation to Cakici affair]</ref>

<ref name="r2">{{cite news |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=62202 |publisher=Radikal |title='Çakıcı Kaçtı' Alarmı |date=8 January 2003 |access-date=January 24, 2009 |language=Turkish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522141827/http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=62202 |archive-date=22 May 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="star">{{cite news |url=http://www.stargazete.com/politika/cakici-iste-boyle-kacti-17636.htm |publisher=[[Star (Turkish newspaper)|Star]] |title=Çakıcı İşte Böyle Kaçtı |date=May 10, 2004 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish}}</ref>

<ref name="r3">{{cite news |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=115581 |publisher=Radikal |title=Emniyet'ten 'Çakıcı Kaçtı' Açıklaması |date=6 May 2004 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522142035/http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=115581 |archive-date=22 May 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="ntv1">{{cite news |url=http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/278480.asp |publisher=NTV MSNBC |title=Çakıcı Avusturya'da Yakalandı |date=15 July 2004 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish}}</ref>

<ref name="sg1">{{cite news |url=http://www.stargazete.com/guncel/cakicinin-carpici-iliskileri-20688.htm |publisher=Star Gazette |title=Çakıcı'nın Çarpıcı İlişkileri |date=16 July 2004 |author1=Elibol, Kamil |author2=Kubilay Gülbek |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish}}</ref>

<ref name="ntv2">{{cite news |url=http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/278686.asp |publisher=NTV MSNBC |title=Çakıcı Hakim Karşısına Çıktı |date=16 July 2004 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish}}</ref>

<ref name="sab1">{{cite news |url=http://arsiv.sabah.com.tr/ozel/alaattin58/dosya_58.html |publisher=Sabah |title=Alaattin Çakıcı Dosyası |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090123220734/http://arsiv.sabah.com.tr/ozel/alaattin58/dosya_58.html| archive-date= 23 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

<ref name="rad1">{{cite news |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/2000/07/14/turkiye/01cak.shtml |publisher=Redikal |title=Çakıcı'ya Çıkış Yok |author=Bilge, Demet |date=14 July 2000 |access-date=24 January 2009 |language=Turkish}}</ref>

<ref name="hurriyet">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mhp-leader-defends-his-visit-to-notorious-mafia-leader-132314|title=MHP leader defends his visit to notorious mafia leader - Turkey News|website=Hürriyet Daily News|language=en|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref>

<ref name="ahvalnews">{{Cite web|url=https://ahvalnews.com/alaaddin-cakici/pro-far-right-mhp-mob-boss-receives-right-unlimited-visitors-prison|title=Pro far-right MHP mob boss receives right to unlimited visitors in prison|website=Ahval|language=en|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref>

<ref name="hurr2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-penal-institutions-start-releasing-inmates-153887|title=Turkish penal institutions start releasing inmates - Turkey News|website=Hürriyet Daily News|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref>

<ref name="reuters">{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-prisoners-idUSKCN21V241|title=Turkish parliament passes bill to free thousands from prison amid coronavirus|date=2020-04-14|work=Reuters|access-date=2020-04-16|language=en}}</ref>

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==External links==
* [[Turkish Daily News]], 27 September 1998, [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/cakicis-cabinet.aspx?pageID=438&n=cakicis-cabinet-1998-09-27 Cakici's Cabinet]

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[[Category:1953 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Trabzon]]
[[Category:People deported from Austria]]
[[Category:Grey Wolves (organization) members]]
[[Category:Turkish crime bosses]]
[[Category:Turkish people convicted of murder]]
[[Category:People convicted of murder by Turkey]]
[[Category:People extradited to Turkey]]

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