Sercan Sayal, wanted with a red notice, was brought to Türkiye from Greece

Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek announced that Sercan Sayal, who is wanted internationally with a red notice and has 116 separate wanted records for crimes such as premeditated murder, aggravated plunder and forming an organization for the purpose of committing a crime, was brought to Türkiye from Greece.

Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek stated the following in his post on his social media account:

"In our meeting with the Greek Minister of Justice, Mr. Yorgos Floridis, on September 1, we discussed the processes related to the fight against transnational organized crime and the extradition of criminals, and conveyed our demands for the people who are expected to be extradited to our country. In this meeting, the delivery of Sercan Sayal, one of the people whose extradition we brought to the agenda, who has 116 separate wanted records for crimes such as premeditated murder, aggravated plunder and establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime, and who is wanted at the international level with a red notice, from Greece to our country. I would like to thank Mr. Floridis and the Greek authorities for their constructive contributions to this development, which is a concrete result of the judicial cooperation between our countries.

We will not allow any borders to hinder our determination in the fight against crime, and we will continue our work with determination to bring people for whom there are arrest warrants to justice. "I would like to thank the relevant units of our Ministry of Justice and our Ministry of Internal Affairs who contributed to the process."