Hüseyin Saral

Police on June 4 detained 15 people in relation to a deadly mafia armed clash the previous day that killed one person and injured seven others in the Istanbul district of Güngören.

A group driving a white colored car had on June 3 fired upon a group of others in front of a cafe on a busy street in Güngören, killing a man identified as Birol Çakar. 

The son of a Turkish man who had been questioned over alleged links to a recent series of mafia shootings in downtown Istanbul was killed in the Netherlands on April 26, Dutch media has reported.

Two separate targeted hits in one day in upscale Istanbul neighborhoods left three people dead late Dec. 24, just days after a bodyguard was killed in front of a bar in Istanbul's Nişantaşı neighborhood.

Interior Minister Efkan Ala said there was no concrete data in their hands that would allow them to say if the two hits were related but that they were working on that possibility.