Şükrü Balcı

	Şükrü Balcı Şükrü Balcı (1929, Divriği - 6 May 1993, USA) was a Turkish high-ranking civil servant, governor and chief of police. He has a law degree from the Law School of Ankara University He served as the Istanbul Chief of Police from 1979 to 1983 (a period including the 1980 Turkish coup d'état), and previously he also served as the deputy chief of police in Istanbul in 1972 and 1977.Today's Zaman, 16 May 2013Name of Sept. 12 police chief to be removed from school/ref> He was believed to have strong influence and links with the Turkish mafia. In the late 1970s Balcı was indicted for suspected arms smuggling and acquitted. This did not appear to harm his career. According to Turkish-Kurdish drug lord Hüseyin Baybaşin who was arrested by Sukru Balci, Balcı was at the time the most important state official working with the DEA in controlling the transshipment of heroin through Turkey. Balcı was accused in Mehmet Eymür's 1987 MIT Report on coordinating links between police, politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Divriği Divriği (; ) is a town of eleven thousand people in Sivas Province, Turkey, and is the district capital of Divriği District.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. The town lies on a gentle slope on the south bank of the Çaltısuyu river, a tributary of the Karasu river which flows into the Euphrates . The 13th century [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Susurluk Scandal The Susurluk scandal () or Susurluk accident (), was a 1996 political scandal in Turkey that exposed a close relationship between the Turkish government, the ultra-nationalistic paramilitary Grey Wolves (organization), Grey Wolves organization and the Turkish mafia. It took place during the peak of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in the mid-1990s. The scandal surfaced with a Susurluk car crash, car–truck collision on November 3, 1996, near the small town of Susurluk in the province of Balıkesir. The victims included the deputy chief of the Istanbul Police Department, a Member of Parliament, and Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Grey Wolves and a contract killer for the National Intelligence Organization (Turkey) (MİT), who was on Interpol's INTERPOL notice, red list at the time of his death. The peculiar connections of those involved in the crash with Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar brought to light the existence of a deep state in Turkey and an internal power struggle wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Turkish Police Chiefs Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey Turkish language * Turkish alphabet Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The word that Iranian Azerbaijanis use for the Azerbaijani language * Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkey), 1299–1922, previously sometimes known as the Turkish Empire ** Ottoman Turkish, the Turkish language used in the Ottoman Empire * Turkish Airlines, an airline * Turkish music (style), a musical style of European composers of the Classical music era * Turkish, a character in the 2000 film '' Snatch'' See also * * * Turk (other) * Turki (other) * Turkic (other) * Turkey (other) * Turkiye (other) * Turkish Bath (other) * Turkish population, the number of ethnic Turkish people in the world * Culture of Turkey * History of Turkey ** History of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	People From Divriği The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1993 Deaths This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1929 Births This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	BirGün ''BirGün'' (''One Day'') is an Istanbul-based Turkish left-wing daily. The paper was founded in 2004 by a group of Turkish intellectuals. The most important point of the newspaper is that it is not owned by any parent company or conglomerate. Since its foundation, the newspaper had to face serious pressures from publishing trusts, mainly to affiliated with Doğan Media Group that owns the vast majority of the market. Whereas most of the newspapers in Turkey pay paper and publishing cost as installments, ''BirGün'' had to pay in cash. In order to afford the costs, the newspaper first launched a subscription campaign, then raised its price to 0.75 TL. The price was 1 TL in 2012 and 1,5 TL in Summer 2015 while also costs 40 kuruş (0,4 TL) on universities in Turkey. ''BirGün'' 's sales have tripled since 2013, especially after the Gezi protests, reaching 25,000 copies. Hrant Dink, who was murdered in 2007, was also one of ''BirGün'' 's writers. Most of the ''BirGün ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in Berlin, it expanded internationally in the 1960s, and through mergers in the 1990s and a sale to venture capitalists it fused with Wolters Kluwer and eventually became part of Springer Nature in 2015. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, and New York City. History Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842 and his son Ferdinand Springer grew it from a small firm of 4 employees into Germany's then second-largest academic publisher with 65 staff in 1872.Chronology ". Springer Science+Business Media. In 1964, Springer expanded its business internationally, op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Istanbul Chief Of Police The Istanbul Chief of Police () is the head of the General Directorate of Security (Turkish National Police) of the Istanbul Province. Together with the Ankara Chief of Police it is traditionally the most important position in the Turkish police after the General Director of the General Directorate of Security. List * Ekrem Baydar (1926) * Fehmi Vural (1932-1935) * Salih Rıza Kılıç (1935-1938) * Sadrettin Aka (1938-1939) * Muzaffer Akalın (1939-1941) * O. Selahattin Korkut (1941) * Kâmuran Çuhruk (1941-1942) * Haluk Nihat Pepeyi (1942-1943) * Ahmet Demir (1943-1947) * Ahmet Sebati Ataman (1947) * İsmail Hakkı Baykal (1947-1949) * Cemal Göktan (1949-1950) * Kemal Aygün (1950-1952) * Ahmet Tekelioğlu (1952-1953) * Ethem Yetkiner (1954-1955) * Alaettin Eriş (1954-1955) * Hayrettin Nakipoğlu (1955-1958) * Cemal Tarlan (1958-1958) * Faruk Oktay (1958-1960) * Abdülvahit Erdoğan (1960) * Nevzat Emre Alp (1960-1961) * Necati İşcen (1961) * Mustafa Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Illegal Drug Trade In Turkey The illegal drug trade in Turkey has played a significant role in its history. Turkish authorities claim that Drug trafficking has provided substantial revenue for illegal groups such as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), particularly through marijuana cultivation in south-eastern Turkey, and the 1996 Susurluk scandal showed substantial involvement in drug trafficking on the part of the Turkish Deep state in Turkey, deep state. The French Connection heroin trade in the 1960s and 70s was based on poppies grown in Turkey (poppies are a traditional crop in Turkey, with poppy seed used for food and animal fodder as well as for making opium). Turkish penalties for possession, use and trafficking of illegal drugs are labelled "particularly strict" by the US Embassy in Ankara. Opium and heroin production The city of Afyonkarahisar (''afyon'' "poppy, opium", ''kara'' "black", ''hisar'' "fortress") and its Afyonkarahisar Province was a traditional centre of poppy cultivation. Poppies are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]