What does the new season of The Daltons have to say?

Organized crime has become corporatized?

Paving the way for the suspension of bourgeois law due to security concerns?

That the street does not accept emptiness?

Or the criminalization of poverty and the inclusion of all pursuits of rights in this “gang” bag?

It is not normal to see so much mafia in the headlines, to watch season after season like Narcos and memorize the names of the characters.

But since we've started, let's look at the next section: The indictment is over 1,700 pages long, with 105 suspects.

In the indictment titled “Armed Criminal Organization Organized Under the Leadership of Beratcan Gökdemir,” which is full of messages and social media posts, if we leave aside the tabloid part, the most horrifying part is the definition of “weapons”: “…it has been determined that the suspects used fully automatic weapons referred to as Uzi/Scorpion, a Kalashnikov AK-47 long-barreled weapon, as well as hand grenades, in addition to pistols during the actions. Suspect Okan D. had a hand grenade seized from him when he was apprehended. The same individuals also threw a hand grenade at a business called Ekrem Tır Garage, and also threw explosives at a business called Efsane Meyhane. It has been determined that the Daltons Crime Organization easily obtained explosives in addition to firearms and used them in the activities of the Crime Organization.”

In the suspect statements section, the AK-47 (Kalashnikov), which is referred to as “grave weapons” in the indictment, as well as various long-barreled automatic weapons, grenade pins, grenades, steel vests, cartridges bearing the MKE label, pistols are in abundance...

In the statements section, the answers to questions about weapons swirl like a whirlpool, everyone blaming each other:

Enes İ.: The guns, stocks and cartridges belong to a person named Serdar O., nicknamed Baran.

İdris I .: The long-barreled guns and cartridges are the guns that Serdar O. gave to Muhammed E. and Enes İ. I had nothing to do with the guns; I was just taking photos.

Serdar O .: I have no knowledge of the materials in question. However, while staying at my residence, Serhat Ş. brought a gun with him. This gun was automatic and black. He even took videos of it at home several times, sending greetings. I never touched these guns or had them photographed.

Serhat Ş.: The person named Emirhan S. brought the weapons in question to the house in question. None of the weapons belong to me.

Uğur Efe A .: I have no knowledge of the vehicle in question or the criminal elements found inside. (There is a photo of him with a Kalashnikov in the indictment.)

Ali S .: I don't know who the 13 cartridges belonged to. I believe the person who left the four black hats was a man named Haso who called Uğur. I don't know who the grenade pin belonged to or what it was used for. The cartridge with the inscription MKE 9 P was left behind when Uğur was shooting at motorcyclists around Yeni Bosna. The license plates were in the vehicle when we got in. I don't know who they belonged to or what they were using. I stated that the AK-47 recovered from the vehicle belonged to Uğar and that he fired it with it.

Additionally, among the accusations leveled against Halit F., Mert Nihat E. and other suspects is direct arms trafficking.

FIRST CRIME

According to the Ministry of Justice's 2024 statistics, the top two cases, suspects, and crimes filed in the investigation phase at the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office last year were offenses under the Law on Firearms, Knives, and Other Instruments and the Anti-Smuggling Law. Similarly, based on last year's decision type, two of the top three cases, defendants, and crimes filed in criminal courts fall under the Firearms Law and the Anti-Smuggling Law. In other words, arms trafficking is not only a growing part of the criminal economy, according to the Ministry's statistics, but also because guns are used in other crimes like drug trafficking and extortion, we face a significant arms smuggling and gun crime problem.

The following question remains in this case: From whom did the gang members allegedly involved in the arms trade obtain these weapons? How did they get them to the heart of Istanbul? How many more weapons are there? Who possesses them? Because the pattern in the indictment depicts arms transactions between suspects, and how the weapons came into their possession in the first place remains unclear.

The indictment states that some crimes for which no definitive evidence has been found are still being investigated separately. Perhaps the answers to these questions will come in the next installment.