Territory | Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Afghanistan, Netherlands, Belgium, United States, Switzerland, Norway, Belarus, Russia |
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Ethnicity | Kurds |
Criminal activities | Arms trafficking, assassination, assault, bombing, car theft, contract killing, drug trafficking, extortion, human trafficking, infiltration of politics, kidnapping, murder, people smuggling, police corruption, police impersonation, racketeering, witness intimidation, witness tampering |
Allies | PKK (alleged) Taliban (formerly) Russian mafia Baybaşin family |
Rivals | Turkish mafia |
Kurdish mafia is a general term for organized criminal gangs that consist of ethnic Kurds. Kurdish crime groups are active worldwide, especially throughout Turkey, Europe, and sometimes in the Middle East.