Escobar

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has announced the detention of 42 suspects linked to notorious drug dealer Ürfi Çetinkaya, widely known as the "Turkish Escobar."

The operation, which spanned nine provinces, was a result of a two-year joint effort against the armed organized crime group, Yerlikaya said in an X post on Feb. 20.

Back in 1981, Escobar illegally imported one male and three female hippopotamuses…

A 49-year-old man with prior drug-related convictions held in pre-trail detention in Crete over charges of drug trafficking was released after four months, citing health problems. 

At the beginning of his address, he said that he would still go to Brussels, immediately after the special envoy, Josep Borrell, announced that he and the Prime Minister of the so-called Kosovo, Albin Kurti, are summoned to an urgent meeting.

Last night, together with Miroslav Lajak, he met with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, and the previous day he was in Pristina with the EU's special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar on Tuesday evening to discuss the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

He also said that the only question is whether Kosovo wants to wait for Euro-Atlantic integration until Prime Minister Albin Kurti fulfills his obligation. Escobar emphasized that "Kosovo must now move as a matter of urgency", and indicated that the establishment of the CSM is an international, legal, undertaken obligation.

As stated in the announcement of the Prime Minister's Office, Kurti's meeting with Lajcak and Escobar will take place in the Kosovo Government building.
European Union Spokesman Peter Stano said that Lajcak and Escobar will be in Kosovo and Serbia on Monday and Tuesday, in order to engage in the de-escalation of tensions in the north of Kosovo.

On February 27 in Brussels and on March 18 in Ohrid, Escobar mediated an agreement on the road to the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, but he did not foresee the escalation of the situation in the three municipalities in the north of the so-called Kosovo, writes "Albanian Post", adding that it could have personal consequences for him.

CHISINAU - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Tanjug on Thursday the US was not changing its course on the Kosovo issue but had genuinely condemned Pristina's provocations against Serbs for the first time.