Posted on 11/25/2025 8:45:54 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
The appointment of a Turkish police chief as the new head of Interpol would destroy the organisation’s credibility, lawyers have claimed.
Mustafa Serkan Sabanca has been mooted as the favourite to win the election for the presidency of Interpol, which opened on Monday.
His nomination has prompted concerns that Turkey’s autocratic regime would use Mr Sabanca’s position to whitewash its reputation for arresting and imprisoning critics en masse.
“It’s like sitting the North Koreans on the UN Human Rights Council,” said one British extradition lawyer who represents several dissidents in hiding from Turkish police.
Turkey is ranked behind only Russia and China for abusing Interpol’s red notice system to target political opponents and critics overseas, according to the UK Parliament’s human rights committee.
Countries use the red notice system to arrest high-profile wanted criminals such as people traffickers, drug lords and terrorists.
However, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has been accused of exploiting this tool to target dissidents overseas, including journalists, teachers and human rights activists.
Since the attempted coup against the Turkish president’s ruling AK Party in 2016, the country’s government has submitted 3,579 red notice requests to Interpol against the Gülen movement, followers of the late Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen that allegedly plotted to overthrow the regime.
Despite Interpol blocking these requests, the regime continues to swamp the organisation with red notices and allegedly presents them as non-politically motivated by claiming they are for other offences.
Mr Sabanca, who is the head of Interpol’s bureau in Turkey, is accused of advising police on how to seek a red notice for a human rights lawyer in Belgium by recommending they request it for “embezzlement”, rather than “membership of an armed terrorist organisation”.
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Letting Turkey run Interpol is a lot of Istanbul.
Wonder how long before sharia becomes the basis of international policing.
More muslims, more trouble. I guess Europe has forgotten the last 1,400 yrs of its history. What’s that saying...those who refuse to study history are doomed to repeat it....yes, that’s it.
It used to be run by actual 3rd Reich Nazis. Not much of an improvement.
It used to be run by actual 3rd Reich Nazis
Reinhard Heydrich to be specific.
Turkey is NOT Europe!
President Donald Trump is friends with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that settles the problem right.
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