Mehmet Şirin Baybaşin (born 1965) is a Turkish drug trafficker. He is a notable member of the Baybaşin crime family. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment at Liverpool Crown Court in 2011 for conspiring with a gang in Merseyside, United Kingdom to import large quantities of cocaine from South America.[1][2]
Mehmet Baybaşin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mehmet Şirin Baybaşin 1965 (age 58–59) Lice, Diyarbakır, Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkey |
| Relatives | Hüseyin Baybaşin (brother) Abdullah Baybaşin (brother) |
| Family | Baybaşin family |
Life
editMehmet Şirin Baybaşin was born in Lice, Diyarbakır in 1965.[3][4] His family was of Kurdish origin and was involved in farming and animal husbandry.[5][6]
He was still a child when his family made drugs an illegal business, especially in the early 1970s when his uncle Mehmet Şerif Baybaşin started producing drugs by refining heroin in an isolated village in Lice, but he became a drug dealer as a teenager.[5][6]
In 1994, Turkish authorities issued a search warrant for him and he was arrested in Austria the same year.[7] He was first sent to the Netherlands and then to Turkey in September 2000 to serve his sentence.[7]
References
edit- ^ Humphries, Jonathan (12 June 2023). "Cocaine and heroin godfathers 'The Family' fight to keep luxury property". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ Brunt, Martin (26 October 2011). "Gang Jailed Over Plans To Flood UK With Coke". Sky News. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ "£4 billion cocaine ring: 24 gang members jailed for massive drugs plot". Daily Mirror. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ "Baybaşin'e üst düzey sınırlama". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). 10 April 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ a b Summers, Chris (6 April 2006). "The rise and fall of a drugs empire". BBC News. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
- ^ a b "Baybaşinler". Anadolu Türk İnterneti. 10 June 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Mehmet Baybaşin Türkiye'ye iade edilecek" [Mehmet Baybaşin to be extradited to Turkey] (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 13 September 2000. Retrieved 4 September 2024.