Turkiye arrests 56 ‘high priority’ criminal suspects wanted by 18 countries

Turkiye said Wednesday it had detained 56 high-priority suspects wanted by 18 countries for crimes ranging from drug dealing and money laundering to murder, counterfeiting and assault.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the suspects were listed on Interpol’s “red notice” on “diffusion message” systems, which flag suspects sought for arrest and extradition by individual countries.

The detained people were wanted in the US, Germany, India, and several former Soviet republics as well as other parts of Asia and the Middle East.

Yerlikaya’s office did not disclose names, noting only that the suspects were rounded up in coordinated security sweeps across 11 provinces, including Istanbul.