Erdogan’s gang in Germany only sentenced for petty crimes
Despite being proven that they worked under the Erdogan regime, the Osmanen Germania (“Ottomans of Germany”) gang leaders were sentenced to prison only for petty crimes.
Leaders of the Osmanen Germania (“Ottomans of Germany”) gang that was founded in 2014 with AKP support under the guise of a boxing club have been on trial in the state court in Stuttgart since last March. In yesterday’s hearing, some leaders were sentenced to prison for blackmail, drug smuggling and assault.
Neither the prosecutor nor the court council mentioned the Erdogan regime’s preparations for assassinations against the opposition in the case where 7 gang members and leaders are on trial. The attack against Kurds in Ludwigsburg in 2016 was not mentioned either, like any other politically motivated crime by the gang.
The longest sentence was 6.5 years for the gang’s Stuttgart officer Levent Uzundal. Mehmet Bagci, who declared himself to be “the World Leader of Ottoman Germania” and has had photographs with Erdogan surface, was sentenced to 3 years 4 months.
No sentence was issued for the main suspect in the case Mustafa Kilinc as Kilinc fled to Turkey. His residence was determined to be in Izmir, but attempts to have him testify through the German consulate had failed. Meanwhile gang members on trial in Stuttgart blamed Kilinc for everything the prosecutor directed at them.
THE GANG WAS DIRECTLY UNDER ERDOGAN
According to voice recordings that leaked to the press in December 2017, AKP MP Metin Kulunk, who is also in Erdogan’s inner circle, transferred money several times to the gang leaders so Ottoman Germania could purchase weapons. The gang was determined to have bought guns and automatic rifles with this money to be used against Kurds, while gang leaders Mehmet Bagci and Selcuk Sahin were detained last year due to these connections.
The Osmanen Germani gang, which acted as the criminal network under the Erdogan regime in Germany, was banned in the country on July 10, 2018 when Interior Minister Horst Seehofer issued a statement. The gang has a wide network of organization, but the police has only carried out operations in 4 states, which has allowed the gang to continue their operations under different names.
